{"id":620261,"date":"2026-09-18T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620261\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:48:09","slug":"southampton-boss-eckert-gives-updates-on-midfield-duo-ahead-of-wrexham-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620261\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton boss Eckert gives updates on midfield duo ahead of Wrexham clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bB\">Southampton boss Tonda Eckert expects Caspar Jander to be available for the south coast derby against Portsmouth after the international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bB\">The midfielder has been sidelined since suffering a quad injury during Saints\u2019 pre-season win over Eastleigh in July and had initially been targeting a return against Wrexham this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bB\">However, Eckert says Jander needs another week before returning to training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bB\">\u201cCaspar needs one more week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bB\">\u201cHe\u2019s not going to be ready for tomorrow, but I am very sure that he will be involved in the first game after the break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bB\">That should put the 23-year-old in contention to face Portsmouth at St Mary\u2019s on October 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bB\">Eckert also provided a positive update on Flynn Downes after the midfielder was taken off at half-time during last weekend\u2019s 4-1 win over Bristol City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bB\">\u201cFlynn Downes is okay,\u201d the Saints boss added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton boss Tonda Eckert expects Caspar Jander to be available for the south coast derby against Portsmouth after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-620261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}