{"id":193352,"date":"2025-12-15T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193352\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:47:07","slug":"newcastle-united-dan-burn-set-for-spell-out-after-breaking-rib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193352\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United: Dan Burn set for spell out after breaking rib"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle United<\/a> defender Dan Burn is set for a spell out of action after suffering a broken rib and punctured lung in Sunday’s derby defeat against Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Burn, 33, was injured in a 50\/50 challenge with Sunderland<\/a> right-back Nordi Mukiele during the first half as Newcastle lost 1-0 at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n

Mukiele was booked after his knee crashed into Burn’s side as both players slid in to win the ball.<\/p>\n

Although Burn tried to carry on, following some initial treatment, he was replaced by Fabian Schar a few minutes later.<\/p>\n

Head coach Eddie Howe later revealed the centre-back was taken to hospital after he “struggled to breathe” at half-time.<\/p>\n

A punctured lung occurs when air leaks into the space between the lung and chest wall. This causes the lung to collapse.<\/p>\n

Howe is set to provide a more detailed prognosis at his news conference on Tuesday – but Burn looks set to miss a host of games over the festive period and into the new year.<\/p>\n

“We’re stretched in our backline,” Howe said on Sunday. “We have got a number of injuries and that is alarming for us. It’s not a perfect field for us currently. We’re battling a few situations.”<\/p>\n

Centre-back Sven Botman had already been sidelined with a back issue while Kieran Trippier is recovering from a hamstring problem, and fellow right-back Emil Krafth from a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Schar looks set to partner Malick Thiaw for Wednesday’s Carabao Cup quarter-final against Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> at St James’ Park.<\/p>\n

But Newcastle have few senior options available to ease the load on the pair or on full-backs Lewis Hall and Tino Livramento, who only recently returned from injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United defender Dan Burn is set for a spell out of action after suffering a broken rib…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-193352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}