{"id":344460,"date":"2025-12-31T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344460\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:14:08","slug":"burnley-josh-cullen-set-for-prolonged-period-on-the-sidelines-with-acl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344460\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnley: Josh Cullen set for &#8216;prolonged period on the sidelines&#8217; with ACL injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a> captain Josh Cullen is set for a &#8220;prolonged period on the sidelines&#8221; after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Republic of Ireland midfielder suffered the injury early in the second half of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c5yj4225kvnt#Line-ups\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday&#8217;s 0-0 draw with Everton<\/a> before being replaced by Florentino Luis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cullen had scans on Monday which confirmed the injury and the 29-year-old is set to undergo surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a> Football Club wishes Josh all the best for a successful and speedy recovery,&#8221; the Clarets said in statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cullen started all 18 games of the season before missing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c23edmxek94t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley&#8217;s 3-1 defeat at Newcastle on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott Parker&#8217;s side are 19th in the Premier League and six points from safety after suffering eight defeats in their past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have not won since a 3-2 victory at bottom side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/wolverhampton-wanderers\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolves<\/a> on 26 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnley captain Josh Cullen is set for a &#8220;prolonged period on the sidelines&#8221; after sustaining an anterior cruciate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-344460","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\/344460","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=344460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}