{"id":22870,"date":"2024-01-30T23:49:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/22870\/marcus-smith-out-of-englands\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T23:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:49:56","slug":"marcus-smith-out-of-englands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=22870","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Smith out of England&#8217;s Six Nations opener with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Smith out of England&#8217;s Six Nations opener with injury\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\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\">Marcus Smith is a doubt for England&#39;s opening Six Nations match against Italy. <cite>Photo by David Ramos &#8211; RFU\/The RFU Collection via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>England fly-half Marcus Smith has been ruled out of this weekend&#39;s Six Nations opener against Italy with a calf injury after limping during a training session on Monday, l assistant coach Kevin Sinfield.<\/p>\n<p>With fly-half Owen Farrell making himself unavailable for selection for his well-being, Northampton&#39;s Fin Smith is set to make his international debut.<\/p>\n<photo2>\n<p>&#8220;[Marcus] unfortunately won&#39;t be here this weekend,&#8221; Sinfield told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have received the analysis report but we are waiting to understand exactly what it means for us going forward. He is not fit for this weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>British media reported that the 24-year-old was seen leaving training on crutches and was due to undergo a scan.<\/p>\n<p>England are already without centers Ollie Lawrence and Oscar Beard, as well as hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie, for the match in Rome on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Steve Borthwick could turn to George Ford at No.10 if he decides against giving uncapped Fin Smith a debut.<\/p>\n<p>Borthwick is expected to announce their starting line-up on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/photo2><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Smith out of England&#8217;s Six Nations opener with injury\u060c Marcus Smith is a doubt for England&#39;s opening Six Nations match against Italy. Photo by David Ramos &#8211; RFU\/The RFU Collection via Getty Images England fly-half Marcus Smith has been ruled out of this weekend&#39;s Six Nations opener against Italy with a calf injury after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1920,1014,1835,3898,1524,871],"class_list":["post-22870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-englands","tag-injury","tag-marcus","tag-nations","tag-opener","tag-smith"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22870","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=22870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22872,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22870\/revisions\/22872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}