{"id":40036,"date":"2025-01-04T01:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40036"},"modified":"2025-01-04T01:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:24:24","slug":"torres-out-for-two-months-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/torres-out-for-two-months-due-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres Out for Two Months Due to Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aston Villa manager Unai Emery announced on Friday that defender Pau Torres will be sidelined for two months after suffering a metatarsal fracture. This comes ahead of Villa\u2019s Premier League match against Leicester City on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The 27-year-old defender was seen leaving Villa Park on crutches last Monday after injuring his foot during a clearance in the early stages of the 2-2 draw with Brighton.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Torres has been a key player for Villa, starting 18 of their 19 league matches this season and playing in every Champions League fixture.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cTorres suffered a metatarsal fracture and will be out for two months or more,\u201d Emery told reporters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Defender Diego Carlos and winger Jaden Philogene will also miss the match due to injuries. Additionally, attacking midfielder Morgan Rogers and forward John Duran will be unavailable due to suspensions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Rogers is suspended for one match after accumulating five yellow cards, while Duran will miss his second of a three-match suspension after receiving a straight red card for violent conduct in the 3-0 defeat to Newcastle United.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aston Villa currently sits in ninth place in the Premier League with 29 points and fifth place in the Champions League with 13 points.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Emery reflected on the season so far: \u201cWe don\u2019t think we\u2019ve been bad in the first half of the season, but we could have done better. The league is our priority. We\u2019re in the January transfer window, and the club is working to improve the squad. If we can bring in new players or if someone needs to leave, we\u2019ll be open to it.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Regarding Philogene (22), who came through Villa\u2019s academy, Emery said: \u201cThere may be an option for Philogene in January to leave if the club allows it.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa manager Unai Emery announced on Friday that defender Pau Torres will be sidelined for two months after suffering a metatarsal fracture. This comes ahead of Villa\u2019s Premier League match against Leicester City on Saturday. The 27-year-old defender was seen leaving Villa Park on crutches last Monday after injuring his foot during a clearance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40037,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40036\/revisions\/40037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}