{"id":102498,"date":"2021-07-20T03:03:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102498"},"modified":"2021-07-20T03:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:57:41","slug":"neale-injury-scare-rocks-brisbane-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102498","title":{"rendered":"Neale injury scare rocks Brisbane Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/brisbane-lions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Brisbane Lions\">Brisbane Lions<\/a> are confident star midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/lachie-neale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Lachie Neale\">Lachie Neale<\/a> will be fit to play the Gold Coast Suns on Sunday despite leaving training early today after suffering a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>Neale was seen clutching at the same shoulder he injured back in Round 15 against Geelong, a game in which he managed to play on.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after vision emerged of the Neale leaving the field, the Lions released a statement on Twitter confirming he will be ready to go this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Lachie fell on his shoulder and got a bit of a stinger,&quot; the club said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s completely fine and he&#x27;s going to be alright to play this weekend.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brisbanelions\/status\/1417308201456865292\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/brisbanelions\/status\/1417308201456865292<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Nine&#x27;s Queensland reporter Mark Gottlieb captured the moment the reigning Brownlow Medallist was seen leaving the field in some discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Brownlow medallist Lachie Neale has left the Gabba after falling awkwardly on the same shoulder he partially dislocated a few weeks ago,&quot; Gottlieb tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkGottlieb\/status\/1417287154057715721\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkGottlieb\/status\/1417287154057715721<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old midfielder has battled through multiple injuries this season having played just 11 out of a possible 17 games <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/lachie-neale-set-for-ankle-surgery-brisbane-lions\/cb4fb677-9607-4d71-bd83-f9bad60757c3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\" due to a calf and ankle issue\">due to a calf and ankle issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neale this season has averaged just under 26 disposals a game, along with a tally of nearly seven clearances per game for Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Brisbane Lions are confident star midfielder Lachie Neale will be fit to play the Gold Coast Suns on Sunday despite leaving training early today <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102498\" title=\"Neale injury scare rocks Brisbane Lions\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102499,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102498\/revisions\/102499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}