{"id":12930,"date":"2026-11-09T07:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/alebiosu-faces-lengthy-spell-on-sidelines-with-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:31:40","slug":"alebiosu-faces-lengthy-spell-on-sidelines-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/alebiosu-faces-lengthy-spell-on-sidelines-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Alebiosu Faces Lengthy Spell On Sidelines With Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria international defender Ryan Alebiosu is facing an extended period on the sidelines after sustaining an injury during Blackburn Rovers\u2019 Sky Bet Championship clash against Stoke City last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The right-back was forced off four minutes before half-time after picking up the injury.<\/p>\n<h3>Mowbray Confirms Alebiosu Injury Blow<\/h3>\n<p>Blackburn Rovers head coach Tony Mowbray has confirmed that Alebiosu could be out of action for three to four months, with surgery likely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a scan on Wednesday, and it\u2019s obviously not good news for him,\u201d Mowbray was quoted as saying by <a href=\"http:\/\/lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\">Lancashire Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/hell-be-okay-blackburn-boss-delivers-update-on-alebiosus-fitness\/\">\u2018He\u2019ll Be Okay\u2019\u2014 Blackburn Boss Delivers Update On Alebiosu\u2019s Fitness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looks like he\u2019s going to have an operation, which could keep him out for three or four months, maybe a little longer. We\u2019re all disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRyan is a real positive for the team. He provides an attacking threat from right-back with the pace, energy and athleticism he brings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the positive side, Gady is a young boy. I was going to take him off, but I think he got stronger and stronger in the last 10 or 15 minutes. He won some important headers and made some good challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s hope he can continue to develop over the next few months and, having been given an opportunity, make the most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria international defender Ryan Alebiosu is facing an extended period on the sidelines after sustaining an injury during Blackburn Rovers\u2019 Sky Bet Championship clash against Stoke City last Tuesday. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}