{"id":17136,"date":"2024-01-24T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/leah-williamson-returns-for-arsenal-after-nine-month-absence-in-victory-over-reading-conti-cup-round-up-football-news\/24\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:29:13","slug":"leah-williamson-returns-for-arsenal-after-nine-month-absence-in-victory-over-reading-conti-cup-round-up-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/leah-williamson-returns-for-arsenal-after-nine-month-absence-in-victory-over-reading-conti-cup-round-up-football-news\/24\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Leah Williamson returns for Arsenal after nine-month absence in victory over Reading &#8211; Conti Cup round-up | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Leah Williamson made her first appearance in nine months as the fit-again England captain came off the bench in Arsenal&#8217;s 6-0 League Cup win at Reading on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old returned to action having been sidelined since April by an anterior cruciate ligament injury, a lay-off that included missing England&#8217;s run to the final at the summer&#8217;s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson&#8217;s big moment came just past the hour mark at the Select Car Leasing Stadium as she replaced Jen Beattie.<\/p>\n<p>And she went on to provide an assist for England team-mate Beth Mead &#8211; who in October made her own comeback after an ACL injury &#8211; when the winger made it 5-0 in the 80th minute with a superb strike.<\/p>\n<p>The rout was completed by Stina Blackstenius wrapping up a hat-trick soon after in a contest that also saw Caitlin Foord and Laia Codina get on the scoresheet for Jonas Eidevall&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12040\/13055691\/leah-williamson-returns-for-arsenal-after-nine-month-absence-in-victory-over-reading-conti-cup-round-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leah Williamson made her first appearance in nine months as the fit-again England captain came off the bench in Arsenal&rsquo;s 6-0 League<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/leah-williamson-returns-for-arsenal-after-nine-month-absence-in-victory-over-reading-conti-cup-round-up-football-news\/24\/01\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1827,147,4006,45,313,4339,33,4340,4031,230,380,126,4169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17138,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17136\/revisions\/17138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}