{"id":213272,"date":"2025-12-27T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/213272\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:20:24","slug":"chris-wood-nottingham-forest-striker-undergoes-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/213272\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wood: Nottingham Forest striker undergoes surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nottingham Forest<\/a> striker Chris Wood is set for a further spell on the sidelines after undergoing surgery. <\/p>\n

The New Zealand striker has been out since mid-October with a knee problem and is yet to feature under Sean Dyche since he replaced Ange Postecogolou as manager. <\/p>\n

The 34-year-old excelled at the City Ground last term, scoring 20 times in 40 appearances as they qualified for Europe.<\/p>\n

His playing time has been more limited this campaign, with Wood having managed two goals in nine appearances.<\/p>\n

Wood did not specify the nature of his surgery, but he has been seen wearing a knee brace while watching recent Forest matches. <\/p>\n

“The Christmas I didn’t expect, you can never know what football throws at you,” Wood wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

“From the highs of last season to now the battles and the lows personally of this season. You have to be ready for anything. <\/p>\n

“Truly gutting and frustrating that I’ll be on the sideline for another period of time. It’s what’s needed to come back stronger and better to help my team-mates do the job needed in the Premier League and in Europe.”<\/p>\n

Wood’s last appearance came in Postecoglou’s final game in charge, the 3-0 defeat by Chelsea<\/a> on 18 October. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest striker Chris Wood is set for a further spell on the sidelines after undergoing surgery. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-213272","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\/213272","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=213272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}