{"id":23728,"date":"2026-02-13T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/tottenham-winger-odobert-sidelined-with-knee-tear\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:29","slug":"tottenham-winger-odobert-sidelined-with-knee-tear","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tottenham-winger-odobert-sidelined-with-knee-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham winger Odobert sidelined with knee tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s French winger Wilson Odobert has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear, the Premier League club said on Thursday, after the 21-year-old was forced off during Tuesday\u2019s 2-1 loss at home to Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs, who sacked manager Thomas Frank on Wednesday amid an eight-game run without a league win, said Odobert will have surgery.<\/p>\n<p>British media reported that he could miss the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can confirm that Wilson Odobert has sustained a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee,\u201d Tottenham said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs, who are only five points above the relegation zone, have faced several injury setbacks this season.<\/p>\n<p>Their long list of absentees include forward Richarlison de Andrade, three defenders and several midfielders including James Maddison, Rodrigo Bentancur and Lucas Bergvall.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Cristian Romero criticised the club\u2019s thin squad in an Instagram post earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs, who are languishing in 16th place, next host league leaders Arsenal on February 22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22138,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-23728","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Captain Cristian Romero criticised the club\u2019s thin squad in an Instagram post earlier this month.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Captain Cristian Romero criticised the club\u2019s thin squad in an Instagram post earlier this month.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26612,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23728\/revisions\/26612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}