{"id":28125,"date":"2024-02-27T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/28125\/brightons-mitoma-out-for-rest\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:15:31","slug":"brightons-mitoma-out-for-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=28125","title":{"rendered":"Brighton&#8217;s Mitoma out for rest of season with injury &#8211; De Zerbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton&#8217;s Mitoma out for rest of season with injury &#8211; De Zerbi\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\">Kaoru Mitoma played a starring role for Brighton last season. <cite>David Rogers\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Brighton winger Kaoru Mitoma is likely to miss the rest of the season with a back injury, manager Roberto De Zerbi said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have lost Mitoma until the end of the season,\u201d De Zerbi told a press conference ahead of Wednesday&#39;s FA Cup fifth round match against Wolves.  &#8220;It&#39;s a big problem. I think two or three months will be the end of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mitoma played a starring role last season as Brighton qualified for European <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> for the first time, although he has scored just three goals in 19 matches this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was sidelined with an ankle injury in December, but was nevertheless called up to Japan&#39;s squad for the Asian Cup, which concluded earlier this this month.  Japan was eliminated by Iran in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Mitoma&#39;s injury only adds to Brighton&#39;s injury crisis, with the club missing nine players for the Wolves clash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Evan] Ferguson tomorrow he can&#39;t play [due to an ankle injury]. [Danny] Welbeck has a problem and we need to check it,\u201d De Zerbi said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Joel] Veltman can&#39;t play either and the other injured players can&#39;t play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brighton, seventh in the Premier League table after collecting 39 points from 26 matches, travel to 12th-placed Fulham in the top flight on Saturday, followed by a trip to Rome for their Europa League round of 16 first leg on the 7th. March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton&#8217;s Mitoma out for rest of season with injury &#8211; De Zerbi\u060c Kaoru Mitoma played a starring role for Brighton last season. David Rogers\/Getty Images Brighton winger Kaoru Mitoma is likely to miss the rest of the season with a back injury, manager Roberto De Zerbi said on Tuesday. \u201cI think we have lost Mitoma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7655,1014,11303,2454,1555,11304],"class_list":["post-28125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-brightons","tag-injury","tag-mitoma","tag-rest","tag-season","tag-zerbi"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28125","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=28125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28127,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28125\/revisions\/28127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}