{"id":8494,"date":"2026-02-23T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/loftus-cheek-carried-off-after-collision\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:10:02","slug":"loftus-cheek-carried-off-after-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/loftus-cheek-carried-off-after-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Loftus-Cheek carried off after collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published24 minutes ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#comments\">2 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>England midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek was carried off on a stretcher with a head injury during AC Milan&#x27;s 1-0 defeat by Parma.<\/p>\n<p>He collided with Parma goalkeeper Edoardo Corvi when challenging for a cross early in the Serie A game at the San Siro on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Loftus-Cheek&#x27;s head and neck were put in a brace before he was taken off.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Italia reported that he broke his jaw and several teeth.<\/p>\n<p>A significant injury could affect Loftus-Cheek&#x27;s chances of making England&#x27;s squad for the World Cup, which starts in June.<\/p>\n<p>He made his first England appearance in seven years when he came on as a substitute against Wales in October, having been recalled by manager Thomas Tuchel.<\/p>\n<p>Milan are second in the table, 10 points behind rivals Inter Milan, who beat Lecce 2-0 on Saturday to claim their seventh successive league win.<\/p>\n<p>Mariano Troilo scored the winner for Parma in the 80th minute to leave them 12th in the table.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/italian-serie-a\">Italian Serie A<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/european\">European Football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/milan\">AC Milan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sounds\/series\/p02nrsln\">\n<p>Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loftus-Cheek carried off after collisionImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Ruben Loftus-Cheek has made 71 appearances for AC Milan since joining from Chelsea in 2023Published24 minutes ago2 Comm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}