{"id":1163846,"date":"2026-02-23T07:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163846"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:36:17","slug":"loftus-cheek-carried-off-after-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/loftus-cheek-carried-off-after-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Loftus-Cheek carried off after collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Loftus-Cheek has made 71 appearances for AC Milan since joining from Chelsea in 2023 [Getty Images]<\/p>\n<p>England midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek was carried off on a stretcher with a head injury during AC Milan&#8217;s 1-0 defeat by Parma.<\/p>\n<p>He collided with Parma goalkeeper Edoardo Corvi when challenging for a cross early in the Serie A game at the San Siro on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Loftus-Cheek&#8217;s head and neck were put in a brace before he was taken off.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Italia reported that he broke his jaw and several teeth.<\/p>\n<p>A significant injury could affect Loftus-Cheek&#8217;s chances of making England&#8217;s squad for the World Cup, which starts in June.<\/p>\n<p>He made his first England appearance in seven years when he came on as a substitute against Wales in October, having been recalled by manager Thomas Tuchel.<\/p>\n<p>Milan are second in the table, 10 points behind rivals Inter Milan, who beat Lecce 2-0 on Saturday to claim their seventh successive league win.<\/p>\n<p>Mariano Troilo scored the winner for Parma in the 80th minute to leave them 12th in the table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/series\/p02nrsln?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\">Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/loftus-cheek-carried-off-collision-073617455.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/loftus-cheek-carried-off-collision-073617455.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Loftus-Cheek has made 71 appearances for AC Milan since joining from Chelsea in 2023 [Getty Images] England midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek was carried off on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1163847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}