{"id":66871,"date":"2025-08-08T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66871\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:22:08","slug":"levi-colwill-to-miss-the-season-after-undergoing-acl-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66871\/","title":{"rendered":"Levi Colwill to miss the season after undergoing ACL surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Preseason is off to a rather inauspicious start as Levi Colwill\u2019s injury has indeed proven quite serious, confirming our worst fears in fact with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/injury-update-levi-colwill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> that he\u2019s undergone surgery on his anterior cruciate ligament and will now miss pretty much the entire season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Chelsea have not put any timeline on his recovery, ACL rehab is a lengthy and difficult process and unless you\u2019re Antonio R\u00fcdiger, it will likely take more than six months to complete. Nine months is about standard, but twelve months isn\u2019t uncommon. And full recovery can often take multiple years, even (as we\u2019ve seen with Kurt Zouma and are seeing with Armando Broja and Sam Kerr).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">These injuries used to be career-ending; that\u2019s no longer the case, but they can still be very much career-altering. Hopefully Colwill can return even stronger (like C\u00e9sar Azpilicueta at the start of his career). He\u2019s in great hands at Cobham and the club will do everything in our power to ensure a great outcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Enzo Maresca had hinted that we might dip into the transfer market to help offset the loss of Levi, but we do have some cover with Wesley Fofana and Benoit Badiashile returning from injuries and new signing Jorrel Hato also capable of playing at left-center back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preseason is off to a rather inauspicious start as Levi Colwill\u2019s injury has indeed proven quite serious, confirming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[48872,403,99],"class_list":["post-66871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-chelsea-fc-injury-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}