{"id":255480,"date":"2025-11-10T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255480\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:06:08","slug":"romeo-lavia-injury-chelsea-midfielder-out-for-month-with-quadriceps-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255480\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo Lavia injury: Chelsea midfielder out for month with quadriceps problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since joining Chelsea from Southampton in a \u00a353m move in 2023 &#8211; having turned down Liverpool &#8211; Lavia has struggled with repeated injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has made 29 appearances but missed 88 matches during two and a half seasons at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamstring, thigh and other unspecified injuries have prevented Lavia, who has yet to complete a full 90 minutes for Chelsea, from maintaining fitness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club have tried to manage his workload by limiting his minutes and restricting him to one match per week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Reece James is now considered past the worst of his injury problems after following a similar plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lavia is expected to miss games against Burnley, Barcelona, Arsenal, Leeds, Bournemouth and Atalanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea are third in the Premier League following Saturday&#8217;s 3-0 win over Wolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since joining Chelsea from Southampton in a \u00a353m move in 2023 &#8211; having turned down Liverpool &#8211; Lavia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-255480","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\/255480","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=255480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}