{"id":1224700,"date":"2022-10-14T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/14\/reece-james-could-face-surgery-miss-world-cup-after-scans\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:45:33","slug":"reece-james-could-face-surgery-miss-world-cup-after-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/14\/reece-james-could-face-surgery-miss-world-cup-after-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"Reece James could face surgery &#038; miss World Cup after scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"428\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-14-132153-696x428.png\"   alt=\"James' injury could be worse than first feared \/ Shaun Botterill\/GettyImages\" title=\"James' injury could be worse than first feared \/ Shaun Botterill\/GettyImages\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James&#8217; injury could be worse than first feared \/ Shaun Botterill\/GettyImages<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further scans on the knee injury suffered by Chelsea right-back Reece James have raised the possibility he may need surgery,\u00a0<em>90min\u00a0<\/em>understands.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old appeared to jar his knee in the 2-0 victory over AC Milan and attempted to play on before limping off the field midway through the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The initial assessment of James\u2019 injury was positive and there was a confidence that the right-back would be back on the pitch in a little over a week, giving him plenty of time to recover in time for the World Cup, but sources have now confirmed to\u00a0<em>90min\u00a0<\/em>that further checks on James\u2019 knee have been significantly more concerning.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James complained of more pain on Friday morning and was sent for further examinations which have pointed to further damage.<\/p>\n<p>A decision on whether James will need to undergo surgery is yet to be made. The right-back will undergo more tests over the weekend to determine the best course of action.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for Gareth Southgate to name his England squad is October 19, with the tournament set to get underway on November 20, meaning James faces a clear race against time to prove his fitness ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Should James require surgery, his chances of featuring at the World Cup would be over and so the right-back is pursuing further diagnoses to determine whether going under the knife is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"5B8CDTdNjMg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5B8CDTdNjMg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James&#8217; injury could be worse than first feared \/ Shaun Botterill\/GettyImages Further scans on the knee injury suffered by Chelsea right-back Reece James have raised the possibility he may need surgery,\u00a090min\u00a0understands. The 22-year-old appeared to jar his knee in the 2-0 victory over AC Milan and attempted to play on before limping off the field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1224702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,1497,901,17902,27436,2328,784],"class_list":["post-1224700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-face","tag-james","tag-reece","tag-scans","tag-surgery","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}