{"id":418716,"date":"2026-02-10T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418716\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:39:08","slug":"st-helens-captain-matty-lees-to-miss-start-of-season-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418716\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens: Captain Matty Lees to miss start of season with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens captain Matty Lees will miss the start of the new Super League season with a &#8220;nasty&#8221; knee injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prop Lees, who has replaced Jonny Lomax as Saints skipper for 2026, picked up the injury in the first half of their 98-2 Challenge Cup win at Workington on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Matty will be out for several weeks,&#8221; Saints head coach Paul Rowley told BBC Radio Merseyside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s sustained a nasty injury to his knee. It won&#8217;t require an operation, so that&#8217;s the positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saints, who finished fifth last year, begin the new season away to Warrington Wolves on Friday.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens captain Matty Lees will miss the start of the new Super League season with a &#8220;nasty&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418716","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=418716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}