{"id":75339,"date":"2025-09-10T22:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75339"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:09:17","slug":"man-citys-marmoush-doubtful-for-derby-after-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/10\/man-citys-marmoush-doubtful-for-derby-after-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City\u2019s Marmoush Doubtful for Derby After Knee Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush is a doubt for Sunday\u2019s derby against Manchester United after sustaining a knee ligament injury on international duty with Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was forced off in the fourth minute of Egypt\u2019s goalless World Cup qualifier against Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He attempted to continue after a tackle but limped off shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian Football Association said team doctors diagnosed a bruised knee ligament, with an X-ray scheduled in Cairo on Wednesday to determine the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Marmoush, who joined City from Eintracht Frankfurt in January for \u00a359 million ($79.8m), has scored eight goals in 28 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>His absence would be a major blow as Pep Guardiola\u2019s side, already under pressure after an inconsistent Premier League start, prepare to host United at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush is a doubt for Sunday\u2019s derby against Manchester United after sustaining a knee ligament injury on international duty with Egypt. The 26-year-old was forced off in the fourth minute of Egypt\u2019s goalless World Cup qualifier against Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou on Tuesday. He attempted to continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":75340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75341,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75339\/revisions\/75341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}