{"id":342783,"date":"2025-12-30T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342783\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:26:08","slug":"louza-expected-to-be-fit-for-birmingham-after-shoulder-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342783\/","title":{"rendered":"Louza expected to be fit for Birmingham after shoulder knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Louza went down with a shoulder injury early in the second half and received strapping on the sidelines, playing on for a while longer but eventually being withdrawn after 66 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Any lengthy absence for the instrumental midfielder would come as a blow, with Watford winning their last three matches to move into the top six of the Championship.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But Gracia seemed confident Louza has not done real damage, saying afterwards: &#8220;It is the shoulder but I suppose he will be ready for the next game.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Papy Mendy did well off the bench at Carrow Road but keeping midfielders fit for now is crucial, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watfordobserver.co.uk\/sport\/25711779.behrami-discusses-dwomoh-mendy-futures-watford\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pierre Dwomoh likely to leave in January<\/a> and Edo Kayembe currently away at the African Cup of Nations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A new signing in the middle of the park is being considered, with assistant to the sporting director Valon Behrami claiming last week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watfordobserver.co.uk\/sport\/25717561.behrami-watford-will-sign-players-improve-team\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Hornets will &#8220;probably&#8221; strengthen there<\/a> in the January transfer window if they can find a player who genuinely improves them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hector Kyprianou has started all of the last four matches, with Moussa Sissoko generally used as a substitute for a handful of minutes on the right-hand side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louza went down with a shoulder injury early in the second half and received strapping on the sidelines,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-342783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342783","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=342783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}