Yuto Nagatomo has been in doubt for Japan’s crucial World Cup qualifier against Australia after limped off the pitch during Inter Milan’s victory over Roma over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The Japanese defender started against Roma but felt discomfort in his left leg and had to be replaced in the 56th minute.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hamstring tightened up,\u201d he said, as quoted by The Japan Times<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ll head home and talk things over with the doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n The former FC Tokyo star is scheduled to arrive in Japan on Monday evening and will then be examined by the national team medical staff.<\/p>\n Nagatomo\u2019s injury would be another headache for Japan head coach Vahid Halilhodzic<\/a> as the left-back is one of Japan’s most experienced and consistent performers in the squad.<\/p>\n The Samurai Blue, who are\u00a0leading Asia\u2019s Group B, will square off Australia on Thursday in a clash that could decide both nations’ hopes of claiming an automatic qualification to the finals in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yuto Nagatomo has been in doubt for Japan’s crucial World Cup qualifier against Australia after limped off the pitch during Inter Milan’s victory over Roma over the weekend. The Japanese defender started against Roma but felt discomfort in his left leg and had to be replaced in the 56th minute. \u201cMy hamstring tightened up,\u201d he said, as quoted by The Japan Times. \u201cI\u2019ll head home and talk things over with the doctor.\u201d The former FC Tokyo star is scheduled to arrive in Japan on Monday evening and will then be examined by the national team medical staff. Nagatomo\u2019s injury would be another headache for Japan head coach Vahid Halilhodzic as … Continue reading “Yuto Nagatomo in doubt for crucial World Cup qualifier against Australia”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}