{"id":234656,"date":"2025-08-19T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/lukaku-to-miss-start-of-napolis-title-defence-with-serious-thigh-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:07:08","slug":"lukaku-to-miss-start-of-napolis-title-defence-with-serious-thigh-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/lukaku-to-miss-start-of-napolis-title-defence-with-serious-thigh-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukaku To Miss Start Of Napoli\u2019s Title Defence With \u2018Serious\u2019 Thigh Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lukaku To Miss Start Of Napoli\u2019s Title Defence With \u2018Serious\u2019 Thigh Injury<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romelu Lukaku will miss Napoli\u2019s opening fixture of their Serie A title defence after suffering a thigh injury which could keep the Belgium striker out for months, the Italian champions said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Napoli, who travel to promoted Sassuolo on Saturday, said in a statement that Lukaku had suffered a \u201cserious\u201d tear in his left thigh during Thursday\u2019s pre-season friendly with Olympiakos.<\/p>\n<p>No indication over how long Lukaku would be sidelined was given by Napoli, but Italian media reported that he could be out of action until November.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli suggested that Lukaku, 32, might have to undergo surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Lukaku was key to Napoli winning their fourth league title last season, setting up 10 Serie A goals to go with the 14 he scored under coach Antonio Conte.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lukaku,Romelu Lukaku<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/08\/18\/lukaku-to-miss-start-of-napolis-title-defence-with-serious-thigh-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukaku To Miss Start Of Napoli\u2019s Title Defence With \u2018Serious\u2019 Thigh Injury \u00a0 Romelu Lukaku will miss Napoli\u2019s opening fixture of their Serie A title defence after suffering a thigh injury which could keep the Belgium striker out for months, the Italian champions said on Monday. Napoli, who travel to promoted Sassuolo on Saturday, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1651,1652],"class_list":["post-234656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-lukaku","tag-romelu-lukaku"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}