{"id":313079,"date":"2017-04-22T17:16:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=313079"},"modified":"2017-04-22T17:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T17:16:03","slug":"man-utd-zlatan-marcos-rojo-suffer-cruciate-knee-ligament-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=313079","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd: Zlatan, Marcos Rojo suffer cruciate knee-ligament injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and defender Marcos Rojo have both suffered cruciate knee-ligament injuries and face lengthy spells out of action.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahimovic landed awkwardly when challenging for the ball during the Europa League quarter-final second-leg win over Anderlecht.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Sweden international is United&#8217;s top scorer this season, with 28 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Rojo was replaced on 23 minutes after colliding with a visiting player.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313080 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/95746837_rojo_getty.jpg\" alt=\"_95746837_rojo_getty\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ibrahimovic, 35, joined the club on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain last summer but is yet to agree an extension to his one-year United deal.<\/p>\n<p>Rojo&#8217;s injury leaves United manager Jose Mourinho short of options at centre-back with England internationals Phil Jones and Chris Smalling already on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Bailly and Daley Blind are United&#8217;s only fit senior centre-backs heading into Sunday&#8217;s game at Burnley (kick-off 14:15 BST), with the Manchester derby at Etihad Stadium to follow on Thursday.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and defender Marcos Rojo have both suffered cruciate knee-ligament injuries and face lengthy spells out of action. Ibrahimovic landed awkwardly when challenging for the ball during the Europa League quarter-final second-leg win over Anderlecht. The ex-Sweden international is United&#8217;s top scorer this season, with 28 goals. Rojo was replaced on [&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":[142],"tags":[564,104,4166],"class_list":["post-313079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-citi-sports","tag-manchester-united","tag-zlatan-ibrahimovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313079","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=313079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}