{"id":48408,"date":"2025-05-02T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/jota-celtic-winger-out-for-up-to-nine-months-with-knee-injury-suffered-in-scottish-premiership-title-win-football-news\/02\/05\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:38:43","slug":"jota-celtic-winger-out-for-up-to-nine-months-with-knee-injury-suffered-in-scottish-premiership-title-win-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/jota-celtic-winger-out-for-up-to-nine-months-with-knee-injury-suffered-in-scottish-premiership-title-win-football-news\/02\/05\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Jota: Celtic winger out for up to nine months with knee injury suffered in Scottish Premiership title win | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Celtic winger Jota has been ruled out for between six and nine months, manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old &#8211; who returned to the club from Rennes for \u00a38m in January &#8211; picked up a serious knee injury during last weekend&#8217;s 5-0 away win at Dundee United.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken off during the first half at Tannadice Park as Celtic sealed a fourth consecutive Scottish Premiership title and left the stadium on crutches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not great news for him and for us,&#8221; Rodgers told <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It didn&#8217;t look as bad, but when he had the scan on his knee, it looks like he will probably be out for six to nine months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s done his cruciate and little bit of other damage in there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s quite upbeat and philosophical about it. He&#8217;s had a challenging couple of years after his move away from here to Saudi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will give him a chance to come back even stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12040\/13359872\/jota-celtic-winger-out-for-up-to-nine-months-with-knee-injury-suffered-in-scottish-premiership-title-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic winger Jota has been ruled out for between six and nine months, manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed. The 26-year-old &ndash; who<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/jota-celtic-winger-out-for-up-to-nine-months-with-knee-injury-suffered-in-scottish-premiership-title-win-football-news\/02\/05\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48409,"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":[245,313,186,3226,4866,219,33,1380,1379,6327,113,57,1458],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/25\/05\/1600x900\/skysports-jota-celtic-reo-hatate_6903596.jpg?20250502135625","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48408"}],"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=48408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48410,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48408\/revisions\/48410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}