{"id":52901,"date":"2025-08-16T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=52901"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:16:14","slug":"bournemouth-confirms-kluivert-christie-to-miss-premier-league-opener-at-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/bournemouth-confirms-kluivert-christie-to-miss-premier-league-opener-at-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth Confirms Kluivert, Christie to Miss Premier League Opener at Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Kluivert and Ryan Christie will miss Bournemouth&#8217;s season opener at defending champion Liverpool, manager Andoni Iraola confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kluivert, the team&#8217;s top scorer in the Premier League a season ago as the Cherries recorded their highest points total, has missed preseason games because of a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustin hasn\u2019t been training with us, so he\u2019s out,&#8221; Iraola said ahead of Friday&#8217;s game at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands forward netted 12 goals in league play and 13 overall last season.<\/p>\n<p>Christie, a 30-year-old Scotland midfielder, has been training with the team following a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think it\u2019s too early for him because he hasn\u2019t done any preseason,\u201d Iraola said.<\/p>\n<p>Diakit\u00e9 to make debut? Center back Bafod\u00e9 Diakit\u00e9 joined Bournemouth this week from Lille, but Iraola said he hadn&#8217;t decided if the Frenchman would face Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Kluivert and Ryan Christie will miss Bournemouth&#8217;s season opener at defending champion Liverpool, manager Andoni Iraola confirmed Thursday. Kluivert, the team&#8217;s top scorer in the Premier League a season ago as the Cherries recorded their highest points total, has missed preseason games because of a calf injury. \u201cJustin hasn\u2019t been training with us, so &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52901","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\/52901","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=52901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52902,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52901\/revisions\/52902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}