{"id":838706,"date":"2025-04-03T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/nottingham-forest-head-coach-reveals-ola-aina-injury-status-after-manchester-united-scare\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:12:05","slug":"nottingham-forest-head-coach-reveals-ola-aina-injury-status-after-manchester-united-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/nottingham-forest-head-coach-reveals-ola-aina-injury-status-after-manchester-united-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest head coach reveals Ola Aina injury status after Manchester United scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Nottingham Forest head coach, Nuno Espirito Santo, has revealed Super Eagles star, Ola Aina, will undergo further scans to know the extent of the injury he sustained against Manchester United, <a href=\"https:\/\/Soccernet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Reds sealed a 1-0 victory against Ruben Amorim\u2019s side at the City Ground last night, courtesy of a 5th minute brilliant solo goal from Carrington export, Anthony Elanga.<\/p>\n<p>30 minutes later, Aina pulled up injured on the pitch, without any collision, and Forest\u2019s medical staff were ushered onto the pitch. After initial checks, he appeared fine, but after three minutes, the former Chelsea defender was helped into the tunnel, and was replaced by Alex Moreno.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/imago1057969086-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Ola Aina\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147900\">Ola Aina during the football match between Nottingham Forest FC and Southampton FC at City Ground on January 19th, 2025 England. 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[Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking about Aina\u2019s injury status after the game, the former Tottenham Hotspur manager mentioned he\u2019s unsure about what the issue was.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have to assess. It is always a concern when a player gets injured by himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is going to have a scan and we will see how it is. We\u2019re not quite sure what it is, only the scan will say exactly,\u201d Nuno Espirito Santo said in quotes revealed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/sport\/football\/football-news\/nottingham-forest-ola-aina-injury-10073097?int_source=amp_continue_reading&#038;int_medium=amp&#038;int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nottinghamshire Live.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145556\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/imago1056485991-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145556\">Ola Aina is under pressure from Son Heung-Min of during the Premier League match between Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur at the City Ground. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elanga\u2019s goal made it three league wins in a row for the City Ground inhabitants, and it meant Nuno became the first Forest manager to complete the league double over United since Brian Clough in the 1991\/92 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted, realising how the game went. We could not be more proud than we are, because it was very tough,\u201d Nuno said, expressing pride at the achievements of his team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Forest are now edging closer to their dream of playing in the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the 21st century.<\/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\/04\/aina-forest-united.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Nottingham Forest head coach, Nuno Espirito Santo, has revealed Super Eagles star, Ola Aina, will undergo further scans to know the extent of the injury he sustained against Manchester United, Soccernet.ng reports. The Reds sealed a 1-0 victory against Ruben Amorim\u2019s side at the City Ground last night, courtesy of a 5th minute brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26774,94925,2005],"tags":[14675,94924],"class_list":{"0":"post-838706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-forest","8":"category-nottingham","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-forest","11":"tag-nottingham"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838706","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=838706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}