{"id":6865,"date":"2026-10-05T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=6865"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:38:47","slug":"alex-scott-bournemouth-midfielder-withdraws-from-england-duty-and-could-miss-several-weeks-with-tendon-injury-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=6865","title":{"rendered":"Alex Scott: Bournemouth midfielder withdraws from England duty and could miss &#8216;several weeks&#8217; with tendon injury | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Alex Scott is withdrawing from the England squad after picking up a tendon injury in the 7-0 win over Croatia.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sky Sports News<\/em> understands Scott is set to return to Bournemouth for further assessment to discover the full extent of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Initial indications suggest he could be missing for several weeks, although further scans are planned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/13594631\/croatia-0-7-england-thumping-win-reinvigorates-thomas-tuchels-project-after-world-cup-blow-but-next-spain-test-will-define-progress-towards-success\">Scott impressed on his first England start in Rijeka <\/a>and drew praise from head coach <strong>Thomas Tuchel<\/strong>, linking up well with <strong>Elliot Anderson<\/strong>, with whom he won the U21s Euros in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder asked to come off in the second half after feeling pain and has been for a scan to identify the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports News reported <strong>Manchester City<\/strong> and <strong>Chelsea <\/strong>were interested in signing Scott this summer, but Bournemouth remained adamant he was not for sale and were under no pressure to sell, with two years remaining on his contract<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth play Chelsea in their first game after the international break at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/13595264\/alex-scott-bournemouth-midfielder-withdraws-from-england-duty-and-could-miss-several-weeks-with-tendon-injury\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Scott is withdrawing from the England squad after picking up a tendon injury in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}