Veteran forward Tim Cahill\u00a0had been working around the clock to be fit for Friday\u2019s World Cup playoff first leg against Honduras.<\/p>\n
Cahill suffered from his ankle injury in Melbourne City\u2019s 1-0 defeat by Sydney FC on Friday. He had\u00a0to be substituted\u00a0just 25 minutes into the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m definitely not going to promise anything \u2026 but this is a massive occasion for us, the chance to make it to a fourth consecutive World Cup, so we\u2019re making a calculated decision,\u201d he told reporters at Melbourne airport, as quoted by Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cahill also said he was doing everything within his power to reduce the swelling in his ankle after having undergone an MRI scan early on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n The Socceroos were flying to Honduras on Sunday night ahead of the first leg of the World Cup play-off on 10 November.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran forward Tim Cahill\u00a0had been working around the clock to be fit for Friday\u2019s World Cup playoff first leg against Honduras. Cahill suffered from his ankle injury in Melbourne City\u2019s 1-0 defeat by Sydney FC on Friday. He had\u00a0to be substituted\u00a0just 25 minutes into the game. \u201cI\u2019m definitely not going to promise anything \u2026 but this is a massive occasion for us, the chance to make it to a fourth consecutive World Cup, so we\u2019re making a calculated decision,\u201d he told reporters at Melbourne airport, as quoted by Reuters. Cahill also said he was doing everything within his power to reduce the swelling in his ankle after having undergone an … Continue reading “Tim Cahill\u00a0“not promise anything” about his ankle injury”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[761,110,467,1037],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536"}],"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=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}