{"id":48519,"date":"2025-05-14T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48519"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:54:03","slug":"forests-awoniyi-in-induced-coma-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/forests-awoniyi-in-induced-coma-after-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest&#8217;s Awoniyi in Induced Coma after Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi is in an induced coma after undergoing surgery on a serious abdominal injury, according to British media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international, 27, collided with the goalpost in the 88th minute of Sunday&#8217;s 2-2 Premier League draw with Leicester City at the City Ground, attempting to connect with a cross from Anthony Elanga.<\/p>\n<p>Awoniyi, who joined Forest from Union Berlin in June 2022, came on as a late substitute for Ibrahim Sangare and spent only five minutes on the pitch before the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He received immediate treatment on the field and then rejoined the game but was limping for the last 10 minutes of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC was among British media outlets that reported late on Tuesday that Awoniyi had been placed in an induced coma after having the first phase of surgery.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement earlier on Tuesday, Forest said Awoniyi had undergone surgery and was &#8220;recovering well&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi is in an induced coma after undergoing surgery on a serious abdominal injury, according to British media reports. The Nigeria international, 27, collided with the goalpost in the 88th minute of Sunday&#8217;s 2-2 Premier League draw with Leicester City at the City Ground, attempting to connect with a cross from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48519","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\/48519","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=48519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48520,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48519\/revisions\/48520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}