{"id":1572,"date":"2024-02-14T19:44:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2024-02-14T19:44:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:44:39","slug":"brazils-matheus-cunha-out-with-hamstring-injury-ahead-of-copa-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#039;s Matheus Cunha out with hamstring injury ahead of Copa America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Brazil striker Matheus Cunha has sustained a &#8220;significant&#8221; hamstring injury, English club Wolverhampton said Wednesday, which could rule him out for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Wolves manager Gary O&#8217;Neil didn&#8217;t put a timeline for Cunha&#8217;s return, but the severity of the injury potentially jeopardizes the striker&#8217;s availability for the Copa America starting in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Cunha was part of the squads named by Brazil&#8217;s previous coach, Fernando Diniz. Dorival J\u00fanior was hired as the coach of the national team in January and has yet to select a squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Cunha was hurt in Wolves&#8217; 2-0 loss to Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday. The striker came into that game in form, having scored a hat trick in a win at Chelsea a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>&#8220;It\u2019s obviously a big blow to us, to the team and Matheus because of the work he\u2019s been doing \u2014 the form he was in was exceptional,&#8221; O&#8217;Neil said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad><i><strong>[Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? <\/strong><\/i><i><strong>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily<\/strong><\/i><i><strong>.]<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil striker Matheus Cunha has sustained a &#8220;significant&#8221; hamstring injury, English club Wolverhampton said Wednesday, which could rule him out for the rest of the season. Wolves manager Gary O&#8217;Neil didn&#8217;t put a timeline for Cunha&#8217;s return, but the severity of the injury potentially jeopardizes the striker&#8217;s availability for the Copa America starting in June. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}