{"id":901390,"date":"2026-04-25T00:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/haji-wright-facing-potential-injury-worry-ahead-of-usmnt-window\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:24:56","slug":"haji-wright-facing-potential-injury-worry-ahead-of-usmnt-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/haji-wright-facing-potential-injury-worry-ahead-of-usmnt-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Haji Wright facing potential injury worry ahead of USMNT window"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n\t\t<main id=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-751436\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" itemscope>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Haji Wright\u2019s early second-half substitution in Saturday\u2019s home loss to Southampton has led to some worrying news about his immediate future. <\/p>\n<p>Wright left Saturday\u2019s 2-1 loss at the CBS Arena due to a groin injury, Sky Blues manager Frank Lampard confirmed postmatch. The U.S. men\u2019s national team striker started the match but only played 62 minutes in the loss, which was only Coventry City\u2019s second home defeat of the season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaji\u2019s got a bit of a sensation in his groin so we\u2019ll have to check that out,\u201d Lampard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/sport\/football\/football-news\/coventry-injuries-haji-rudoni-thomas-33598888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in an interview, transcribed by the Coventry Telegraph<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Wright\u2019s production has picked back up in 2026 with the American forward scoring eight of his 17 goals this season in the new year. The 27-year-old was named Coventry City\u2019s Fans Player of the Month for February after scoring five times, including a hat trick in a home victory over second-place Middlesbrough. <\/p>\n<p>He also scored in three-consecutive matches against Sheffield United, Stoke City, and Bristol City respectively before getting a rest in a 3-0 victory over Preston North End. <\/p>\n<p>Coventry City could ill afford to lose Wright\u2019s services, sitting nine points clear in the race for automatic promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues will travel to Swansea City on Saturday in their final match of the month and Lampard will hope that Wright is available for the trip to Wales.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/main>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbisoccer.com\/2026\/03\/haji-wright-facing-potential-injury-worry-ahead-of-usmnt-window\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haji Wright\u2019s early second-half substitution in Saturday\u2019s home loss to Southampton has led to some worrying news about his immediate future. Wright left Saturday\u2019s 2-1 loss at the CBS Arena due to a groin injury, Sky Blues manager Frank Lampard confirmed postmatch. The U.S. men\u2019s national team striker started the match but only played 62<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":901391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22915,22207],"tags":[5905,7282],"class_list":{"0":"post-901390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-facing","8":"category-wright","9":"tag-facing","10":"tag-wright"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901390","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=901390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}