{"id":75515,"date":"2025-09-22T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75515"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:07:57","slug":"maresca-rules-out-surgery-for-chelsea-star-cole-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/22\/maresca-rules-out-surgery-for-chelsea-star-cole-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Maresca Rules Out Surgery for Chelsea Star Cole Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has confirmed that forward Cole Palmer will not undergo surgery for a recurring groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer was forced off just 21 minutes into Saturday\u2019s 2-1 defeat to Manchester United, sparking concerns over his fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing reporters on Monday, September 22, 2025, Maresca said the medical team advised against surgery, opting instead to manage the issue \u201cday by day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He praised Palmer\u2019s determination to keep playing despite not being fully fit, describing him as a key figure in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old will, however, miss Tuesday\u2019s League Cup tie against Lincoln City.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca also confirmed that midfielders Romeo Lavia and Beno\u00eet Badiashile remain unavailable, though both have returned to training.<\/p>\n<p>Academy players are expected to bolster the squad for the cup fixture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has confirmed that forward Cole Palmer will not undergo surgery for a recurring groin injury. Palmer was forced off just 21 minutes into Saturday\u2019s 2-1 defeat to Manchester United, sparking concerns over his fitness. Addressing reporters on Monday, September 22, 2025, Maresca said the medical team advised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75515","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75517,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75515\/revisions\/75517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}