{"id":22594,"date":"2026-07-29T10:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=22594"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:31:20","slug":"lavia-nursing-hamstring-problem-but-is-tipped-to-play-against-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=22594","title":{"rendered":"Lavia nursing hamstring problem but is tipped to play against Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Romeo Lavia did not feature in Chelsea\u2019s pre-season friendly against Western Sydney Wanderers because of concerns about a hamstring injury, says boss Xabi Alonso.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lavia\u2019s Blues career has been blighted by various injuries and the midfielder is yet to complete a full 90 minutes for the club since he joined in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Lavia was due to feature against the Australian side in the first game of the pre-season tour \u2013 and the first game in charge for new head coach Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>But Alonso said Lavia \u201cfelt something in the hamstring\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard added: \u201cIt\u2019s not a big thing and, hopefully, we are expecting him to be fit for Saturday (against Tottenham).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But there was no point in taking risks today, which is why Reggie Watson played 90 minutes and did well.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #1b4f9c; color: white; border-radius: 12px; padding: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); flex-wrap: nowrap;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.commentwrap --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/themify_builder_content --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romeo Lavia did not feature in Chelsea\u2019s pre-season friendly against Western Sydney Wanderers because of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}