{"id":235762,"date":"2025-10-31T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235762\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:55:16","slug":"scotland-concern-as-angus-gunn-opens-up-knee-ligaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235762\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland concern as Angus Gunn ‘opens up knee ligaments’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Angus Gunn could be a doubt for Scotland’s crucial World Cup qualifying double header next month.<\/p>\n

National head coach Steve Clarke will name his squad to face Greece and Denmark next week.<\/p>\n

But, speaking before Saturday’s Premier League meeting with Manchester United, Forest manager Sean Dyche said: “Angus Gunn, who is currently not playing but is obviously part of the squad, he’s opened up his knee ligaments.”<\/p>\n

Dyche gave no indication of the length of time the 29-year-old would be on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

However, the latest blow comes on top of the fact Gunn has not featured for Forest since signing a one-year contract this summer after leaving Norwich City.<\/p>\n

His only outings this season have been Scotland’s four previous World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n

Gunn, who has 20 caps for Scotland, said last month<\/a> he would be looking at a possible move in January if he did not get more game time with his club.<\/p>\n

He expressed disappointment at not having received promised game time under two managers – Nuno Espirito Santo and Ange Postecoglou – and that has continued in two games under new boss Dyche before the goalkeeper’s injury blow.<\/p>\n

Scotland are behind Denmark on goal difference at the top of Europe’s Group C qualifying group before visiting Greece on 15 November and then hosting the Danes three days later in what will be a head-to-head for the automatic qualification place, with the runner-up progressing to the play-offs.<\/p>\n

The two other goalkeepers in Clarke’s last squad – Heart of Midlothian’s Craig Gordon and Rangers’ Liam Kelly – have also found themselves on the bench for their clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Angus Gunn could be a doubt for Scotland’s crucial World Cup qualifying double header next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-235762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}