{"id":47581,"date":"2025-04-30T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47581"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:38:48","slug":"tottenham-captain-son-to-miss-europa-league-semi-final-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/tottenham-captain-son-to-miss-europa-league-semi-final-first-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Captain Son to Miss Europa League Semi-Final First Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean striker Son Heung-min will miss his English club Tottenham\u2019s match against Norway\u2019s Bod\u00f8\/Glimt on Thursday in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League semi-finals, according to his Australian coach Ange Postecoglou on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Tottenham captain has not played since the 1\u20131 draw against Germany\u2019s Eintracht Frankfurt on April 10 due to a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Postecoglou expressed hope that the South Korean forward could return in time to help the North London club in the second-tier European competition, behind the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>He said on Wednesday, on the eve of the match: \u201cHe won\u2019t be playing tomorrow evening. He\u2019s training, but still not with the group. He\u2019s improving, and I hope he\u2019ll return soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Son has scored 11 goals in 43 appearances this season, but hasn\u2019t scored from open play since January 23.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham suffered their 19th defeat in a disappointing Premier League campaign with a crushing 5\u20131 loss to champions Liverpool last Sunday at Anfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean striker Son Heung-min will miss his English club Tottenham\u2019s match against Norway\u2019s Bod\u00f8\/Glimt on Thursday in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League semi-finals, according to his Australian coach Ange Postecoglou on Wednesday. The Tottenham captain has not played since the 1\u20131 draw against Germany\u2019s Eintracht Frankfurt on April 10 due to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47581","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\/47581","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=47581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47582,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47581\/revisions\/47582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}