{"id":77341,"date":"2025-10-24T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77341"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:30:23","slug":"rodgers-gives-injury-update-on-iheanacho-after-win-vs-sturm-graz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/24\/rodgers-gives-injury-update-on-iheanacho-after-win-vs-sturm-graz\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodgers Gives Injury Update on Iheanacho After Win vs Sturm Graz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed that Super Eagles forward Kelechi Iheanacho may have sustained a hamstring injury during the team\u2019s 2-1 Europa League win over Sturm Graz on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Iheanacho was forced off early in the match and replaced by Johnny Kenny, while defender Alistair Johnston also limped off with a similar issue. Centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers later picked up an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers expressed concern over the situation, saying, \u201cThe first two, Iheanacho and Johnston, it doesn\u2019t look great. It looks like hamstrings. But that\u2019s what happens sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All three players are now doubtful for Sunday\u2019s Premiership clash with Hearts, who currently lead Celtic by five points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed that Super Eagles forward Kelechi Iheanacho may have sustained a hamstring injury during the team\u2019s 2-1 Europa League win over Sturm Graz on Thursday. Iheanacho was forced off early in the match and replaced by Johnny Kenny, while defender Alistair Johnston also limped off with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77341","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\/77341","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=77341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77343,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77341\/revisions\/77343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}