{"id":56295,"date":"2021-04-10T07:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T07:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=56295"},"modified":"2021-04-10T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T09:58:49","slug":"eel-still-suffering-ongoing-concussion-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=56295","title":{"rendered":"Eel still suffering ongoing concussion symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parramatta Eels star Ryan Matterson has been ruled out of Sunday's Round Five clash against the St George Illawarra Dragons suffering ongoing symptoms of concussion.<\/p>\n

The Eels announced club medical staff had been monitoring Matterson since his Round Two incident, and he'd not be playing in tomorrow's game. <\/p>\n

Matterson was taken from the field when he was knocked out cold in a tackle from Melbourne Storm star Felise Kaufausi earlier this season. <\/a><\/p>\n

It was a controversial challenge given the apparent use of an elbow <\/a>which was slammed against Matterson's head as he was thrown flat on his back. <\/p>\n

\"Felise<\/p>\n

Kaufusi was handed a grade two dangerous contact charge over the incident and was sidelined for two weeks. <\/a><\/p>\n

Matterson is back at training with the Eels but his history with concussion is understood to have Parramatta's medical staff erring on the side of caution. <\/p>\n

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Parramatta Eels star Ryan Matterson has been ruled out of Sunday's Round Five clash against the St George Illawarra Dragons suffering ongoing symptoms of concussion. […]<\/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\/56295"}],"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=56295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56297,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56295\/revisions\/56297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}