{"id":19661,"date":"2017-12-15T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/15\/chelseas-antonio-conte-insists-injury-is-only-reason-for-david-luizs-absence\/"},"modified":"2017-12-15T23:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T22:30:45","slug":"chelseas-antonio-conte-insists-injury-is-only-reason-for-david-luizs-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=19661","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea\u2019s Antonio Conte insists injury is only reason for David Luiz\u2019s absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Conte: \u2018I understand someone thinks I\u2019m not telling the truth\u2019\u2022 \u00c1lvaro Morata back in squad for home game against SouthamptonAntonio Conte says David Luiz\u2019s continued absence from Chelsea\u2019s team stems solely from inflammation off a knee, a \u201cserious\u201d injury from which no return date has been set.The timing of the injury has been unfortunate, sustained after cracks had emerged in his relationship with the management. Conte was unimpressed with the defender\u2019s stroppy reaction to being substituted in the home game against Roma in mid-October and his performance in the return at the Stadio Olimpico. The 30-year-old was left out of the match-day squad for the win over Manchester United, before succumbing to the knee complaint at the end of last month. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/dec\/15\/football-chelsea-antonio-conte-david-luiz-absence\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea\u2019s Antonio Conte insists injury is only reason for David Luiz\u2019s absence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Conte: \u2018I understand someone thinks I\u2019m not telling the truth\u2019\u2022 \u00c1lvaro Morata back in squad for home game against SouthamptonAntonio Conte says David Luiz\u2019s continued absence from Chelsea\u2019s team stems solely from inflammation off a knee, a \u201cserious\u201d injury from which no return date has been set.The timing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}