{"id":21848,"date":"2024-01-25T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/21848\/england-captain-williamson-returns-after\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:32:15","slug":"england-captain-williamson-returns-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=21848","title":{"rendered":"England captain Williamson returns after lengthy injury layoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England captain Williamson returns after lengthy injury layoff\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Tom Hamilton, lead writer<span class=\"timestamp \">January 25, 2024, 8:25 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\u2022 Joined ESPN in 2011<br \/>\u2022 Covered two Olympic Games, two <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/rugby\/\"   title=\"Rugby\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Rugby<\/a> World Cups and two British and Irish Lions tours<br \/>\u2022 Former rugby editor, then senior editor in 2018<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>England captain Leah Williamson played her first competitive match in nine months on Wednesday as she returned from an ACL injury.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson was injured in April while on duty at Arsenal, but after a lengthy rehabilitation she came on as a second-half substitute in their 6-0 <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> over Reading in the Conti Cup on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The versatile Arsenal player led the Lionesses to Euro 2022 glory, but injury prevented her from competing for England at the 2023 Women&#39;s World Cup in Australia.  Williamson&#39;s return will be a huge boost for Arsenal and England.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson came on in the 61st minute for Jen Beattie and provided an assist for Beth Mead as Arsenal moved past Reading.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Leah Williamson made her first competitive appearance since injuring her ACL in April last year. <cite>Getty<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Speaking about his return to the pitch, Williamson told Sky Sports News: &#8220;It was lovely. You think a lot about what that moment is going to be and it was perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I love playing <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> for Arsenal. Everyone knows how much I love the club. I&#39;ll get emotional if I talk about it too much. I&#39;m just happy to be back and try to help my team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>England play two friendlies in February, then begin their Euro qualifying campaign in April and Williamson will be hoping to be back in the Lionesses squad.  She said: \u201cI missed playing for England so hopefully I can get back into contention and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England captain Williamson returns after lengthy injury layoff\u060c Tom Hamilton, lead writerJanuary 25, 2024, 8:25 a.m. Close \u2022 Joined ESPN in 2011\u2022 Covered two Olympic Games, two Rugby World Cups and two British and Irish Lions tours\u2022 Former rugby editor, then senior editor in 2018 England captain Leah Williamson played her first competitive match in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1310,666,1014,1843,5495,1725,1085],"class_list":["post-21848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-captain","tag-england","tag-injury","tag-layoff","tag-lengthy","tag-returns","tag-williamson"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21850,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions\/21850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}