{"id":108439,"date":"2026-02-15T04:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cucurella-out-for-3-4-weeks-due-to-injury-chelsea-loses-their-key-full-back\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T04:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:57:35","slug":"cucurella-out-for-3-4-weeks-due-to-injury-chelsea-loses-their-key-full-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/cucurella-out-for-3-4-weeks-due-to-injury-chelsea-loses-their-key-full-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucurella out for 3-4 weeks due to injury: Chelsea loses their key full-back"},"content":{"rendered":"London \u2013 Chelsea FC&#8217;s Spanish left-back, Marc Cucurella, will miss between three and four weeks of play due to a hamstring injury, according to sources close to the player.\n\nCucurella suffered discomfort last Tuesday during the 2-2 draw against Leeds United, being substituted at halftime. Medical tests carried out on Thursday confirmed the muscle injury, which prevented him from playing in Chelsea&#8217;s victory against Hull City (0-4) in the FA Cup.\n\nThe coach of the London team, Liam Rosenior, mentioned after the match that the player suffers from &#8220;a hamstring problem&#8221;, without specifying the recovery time.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A key player<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Catalan defender has been a fundamental element this season, participating in 35 official matches and establishing himself as one of the most important players in the team. In addition, he is a regular call-up for the Spanish national team led by Luis de la Fuente.\n\nAccording to the planned deadlines, Cucurella could be available for the Finalissima that Spain will play against Argentina on March 27 at the Lusail stadium, in Qatar, as well as for the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada that will begin in June.\n\nThe Chelsea medical team will continue to assess his progress in the coming weeks with the aim of the player making a full recovery for the final phase of the season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London \u2013 Chelsea FC&#8217;s Spanish left-back, Marc Cucurella, will miss between three and four weeks of play due to a hamstring injury, according to sources close to the player. Cucurella suffered discomfort last Tuesday during the 2-2 draw against Leeds United, being substituted at halftime. Medical tests carried out on Thursday confirmed the muscle injury, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[11857,11847,290,11848],"class_list":{"0":"post-108439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-chelsea-fc","9":"tag-hamstrings","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-marc-cucurella"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}