{"id":189299,"date":"2016-02-12T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=189299"},"modified":"2016-02-12T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:41:21","slug":"diego-costa-to-play-with-broken-nose-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=189299","title":{"rendered":"Diego Costa to play with broken nose this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chelsea striker Diego Costa is expected to be fit to play in a mask against Newcastle on Saturday after breaking his nose in training on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chelsea interim boss Guus Hiddink revealed on Friday that the striker suffered the injury in a training ground collision with an unnamed academy player.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Yesterday in training Diego got in a duel, got his nose broken,&#8221; Hiddink said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was not this tough duel, but he put his nose on the back of the head and he was very unlucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Costa is poised to join full-back Cesar Azpilicueta in wearing a protective face mask, which was due to be fitted on Friday before a light training session to test Costa&#8217;s readiness. Azpilicueta is recovering from a facial injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hiddink added: &#8220;Today is the day they put on a mask. We are a team with a lot of masks. A Zorro team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I hope. I&#8217;m not sure, but I think he will be available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Talksport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea striker Diego Costa is expected to be fit to play in a mask against Newcastle on Saturday after breaking his nose in training on Thursday. Chelsea interim boss Guus Hiddink revealed on Friday that the striker suffered the injury in a training ground collision with an unnamed academy player. &#8220;Yesterday in training Diego got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}