{"id":823261,"date":"2025-01-31T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/not-everton-leicester-citys-ndidi-to-return-from-injury-for-crunch-fa-cup-tie\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:12:10","slug":"not-everton-leicester-citys-ndidi-to-return-from-injury-for-crunch-fa-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/not-everton-leicester-citys-ndidi-to-return-from-injury-for-crunch-fa-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Everton: Leicester City\u2019s Ndidi to return from injury for crunch FA Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Leicester City head coach, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, has confirmed Super Eagles midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, is line to make an injury return ahead of his side\u2019s FA Cup clash against Manchester United, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old has been out since December due to a thigh injury, missing some crucial games for the Foxes as they look to escape the relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p>Ruud Van Nistelrooy\u2019s side sealed the first Premier League since Ndidi\u2019s injury last weekend against Tottenham Hotspur at the London Stadium, and will be hoping to build on a positive result there on in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146858\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/imago1054947261-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146858\">Wilfred Ndidi of Leicester City during the Premier League football match between Leicester City and Brighton &#038; Hove Albion at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ahead of Leicester\u2019s trip to Everton this weekend, Ruud Van Nistelrooy revealed an update about the fitness condition of the one-time FA Cup winner.<\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester United striker revealed Ndidi still has some way to go regarding full fitness, but should return to action next week.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRicardo is recovering. He\u2019s still in individual training with the physios. He\u2019s moved outside to that part of rehab, so he\u2019s on the grass with the physios. His rehab is going according to plan. Wilfred is making good progress. He is partially involved in team training. We\u2019ll look to bring him into full-team training next week,\u201d the Dutch manager said in quotes revealed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/hermansen-ndidi-ricardo--leicester-9906365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leicester Mercury<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/imago1054948781-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148357\">Kaoru Mitoma of Brighton &#038; Hove Albion and Wilfred Ndidi of Leicester City battle for the ball during the Premier League football match between Leicester City and Brighton &#038; Hove Albion at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the Everton game comes too soon for Ndidi, his presence will be crucial for Leicester when they take on Manchester United in the 4th round of the FA Cup next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Amorim\u2019s men defeated Arsenal on penalties at the Emirates Stadium in the previous round of the FA Cup despite being a man down and will be hoping to harness the power of the fans at Old Trafford to get one over their former Interim manager.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/imago1054446376-1024x693.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"693\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148354\">Brentford v Leicester City \u2013 Premier League \u2013 Gtech Community Stadium Brentford\u2019s Christian Norgaard and Leicester City\u2019s Wilfred Ndidi battle for the ball during the Premier League match at the Gtech Community Stadium, Brentford. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ruud Van Nistelrooy once managed the Manchester United team for a few games although on an interim basis, and will be hoping to claim a place in the FA Cup next round over his former side.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img alt=\"Soccer Adefolahan Guerreiro\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/740e257566cac1cbb2887e0f85afd655?s=80&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/guerreiro\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tAdefolahan Guerreiro\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAdefolahan is a multilingual journalist and writer at Soccernet Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>With a track record of involvement in College sports, Adefolahan is focused on crafting engaging football content and utilising his language skills and extensive sports knowledge to enhance content accessibility for a global audience.<\/p>\n<p>He has interviewed Nigerian stars like Finidi George, Junior Lokosa, and Abraham Onahi Ogbu.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/ndidi-play-manchester-united.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Leicester City head coach, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, has confirmed Super Eagles midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, is line to make an injury return ahead of his side\u2019s FA Cup clash against Manchester United, Soccernet.ng reports. The 28-year-old has been out since December due to a thigh injury, missing some crucial games for the Foxes as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33376,32586,2005],"tags":[44905,43318],"class_list":{"0":"post-823261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-everton","8":"category-leicester","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-everton","11":"tag-leicester"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}