Chelsea captain 'all-time glass body' injured for 9th time in 4 years..."It's a hamstring, but the parts are different"
Chelsea captain 'all-time glass body' injured for 9th time in 4 years..."It's a hamstring, but the parts are different"
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James (Chelsea), the worst free-body in the Premier League, injured his hamstring again. This time, he is found to have injured his muscle in his new leg.
The Athletic, a global sports media under the New York Times, reported on the 29th (Korea time) that "Rees James' recent hamstring injury was not a recurrence, but a new problem."
James, the 1999 English full-back, is one of the players produced by Chelsea's youth system. James, who started playing for Chelsea at the age of six, became a key player at the club at an early age when he scored two goals and three assists in 37 matches during his Chelsea debut season in the 2019-20 season.
Since then, he has been reborn as a talent who will take charge of Chelsea and England's right-back position by consistently performing well, but he has not been able to show the performance he expected as he has been hampered by injuries.
James has suffered so many injuries so far that he is called the Premier League's flagship glass body. The injuries are mainly ankles, knees, and hamstrings, especially because of the excessive number of hamstrings.
In fact, James played in 11 games and played 482 minutes during the 2023-24 season as Chelsea captain. After missing the opening game of the Premier League for about two months due to a hamstring injury, he was out of the team due to another hamstring injury two months after his return.
After suffering a recurrence of his hamstring injury, James was put on the operating table in December last year, determined to be absent for a long time in order to recover from the injury. Due to the surgery, he did not return to the hospital until May.
Fans expected James to be free from injury now because of the surgery, but he was not able to play until early October due to another recurrence of a hamstring injury in August ahead of the resumption of the season.
James, who focused on recovering from his injury, returned to the starting lineup in the eighth round of the Premier League against Liverpool on the 21st of last month, and was speculated to have recovered healthy, playing full-time starting for two consecutive games, but he collapsed again with a hamstring injury.
The injury was found to be a different area than the one that had been injured so far.
The Athletic reported, "Chelsea captain James' recent hamstring injury occurred in his opposite leg, which he underwent surgery for last year. This is the ninth time in the last four years that James has been ruled out due to a hamstring injury. He spent 18 months without a game in which he played 90 minutes in the Premier League from April 2023 to October 2024.
However, he said, "It is considered positive that this hamstring problem is not a left leg that underwent surgery, but a new problem in the right leg." He stressed that it is fortunate that a new place was injured, not a previous one. 토토사이트
"Rees James is not expected to recover from his latest injury before the end of December through a hamstring scan. Chelsea have not given an exact timetable for James' return and have yet to confirm the results of this week's scan," the British Telegraph reported. "However, depending on his recovery situation, he may not be able to return until the new year. James will be out again with a hamstring injury, but recent issues are not considered a recurrence of previous injuries."
She added, "Chelsea will provide James with the best rehabilitation program. We are preparing to support James, who is in another physical and mental battle."