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\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Tottenham Hotspur\u00a0forward\u00a0Son Heung-Min\u00a0was substituted midway through the first half of a Champions League match at\u00a0Marseille\u00a0on Tuesday after taking a shoulder to his face in a collision with an opponent.<\/p>\n The\u00a0South Korea\u00a0captain received treatment for about four minutes before being helped off the field at Stade Velodrome. Son appeared to be unsteady on his feet as he walked off.<\/p>\n The setback, if critical, means South Korea will come to the Qatar Party (FIFA World Cup) without their marksman; a development which has sent many Ghanaian soccer fans into frenzy on social media.<\/p>\n Tottenham assistant head coach Cristian Stellini, who was filling in for Antonio Conte as he served a sideline ban, said after the match that Son\u2019s eye was swollen but added he was already feeling better and would be assessed in the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old has just over three weeks to recover ahead of South Korea\u2019s opening game against Uruguay on November 24.<\/p>\n It comes after France\u2019s\u00a0Raphael Varane<\/strong>\u00a0and Portugal\u2019s\u00a0Diogo Jota<\/strong>\u00a0were ruled out of the first-ever winter World Cup after suffering injuries playing for their clubs.<\/p>\n And Liverpool legend Carragher criticised FIFA\u2019s decision to alter the timing of the tournament from its usual summer slot to mid-season.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s an absolute disgrace that the World Cup is in the position it\u2019s in, for lots of reasons,\u201d Carragher said on CBS Sports.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was corrupt that Qatar were given the World Cup, we knew that at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cPlayers who spend their whole lives dreaming of playing in a World Cup and now could be [out injured] \u2013 as we\u2019ve seen with Son and players all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n South Korea are playing in Group H along with\u00a0Uruguay,\u00a0Ghana\u00a0and\u00a0Portugal\u00a0at the World Cup, which starts in less than three weeks\u2019 time in\u00a0Qatar.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tottenham Hotspur\u00a0forward\u00a0Son Heung-Min\u00a0was substituted midway through the first half of a Champions League match at\u00a0Marseille\u00a0on Tuesday after taking a shoulder to his face in a collision with an opponent. The\u00a0South Korea\u00a0captain received treatment for about four minutes before being helped off the field at Stade Velodrome. Son appeared to be unsteady on his feet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2645,15,85,2092,479],"class_list":["post-1242776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-excites","tag-fans","tag-ghana","tag-injury","tag-son"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242776","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=1242776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}