{"id":566251,"date":"2026-05-04T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566251\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:16:10","slug":"jesse-derry-chelsea-teenager-taken-to-hospital-after-head-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566251\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Derry: Chelsea teenager taken to hospital after head injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teenage Chelsea<\/a> forward Jesse Derry has been taken to hospital as a precaution after sustaining a head injury in the 3-1 Premier League loss to Nottingham Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old was making his top-flight debut on Monday<\/a> when he clashed heads with opponent Zach Abbott in the Forest penalty area in the 45th minute. <\/p>\n

He received oxygen on the pitch before being taken off the field on a stretcher after a lengthy stoppage.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> said in a statement Derry is “conscious, talking and undergoing precautionary checks”.<\/p>\n

After the match Chelsea<\/a> caretaker boss Callum McFarlane told BBC Match of the Day: “All signs are positive at the moment so we’re hopeful he’s in a good condition and from what we’ve heard it’s positive.<\/p>\n

“Gutted for Jesse, I thought he did well in the game. He gave us a threat – a massive moment for him that has ended sadly.”<\/p>\n

Derry, the son of former Leeds<\/a> and Crystal Palace<\/a> midfielder Shaun Derry, was making his first start for the club having made two appearances off the bench in the FA Cup this campaign.<\/p>\n

The England Under-19 winger has scored 12 goals in 29 academy matches this season since joining from Crystal Palace<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n

His clash of heads resulted in a penalty being awarded to Chelsea<\/a>, but Cole Palmer’s spot-kick was saved by Forest keeper Matz Sels.<\/p>\n

Derry was replaced by Liam Delap who came on as a concussion substitute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenage Chelsea forward Jesse Derry has been taken to hospital as a precaution after sustaining a head injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566251","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\/566251","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=566251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}