{"id":6310,"date":"2020-12-07T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2020-12-07T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T03:00:45","slug":"kerr-injures-herself-celebrating-stunning-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6310","title":{"rendered":"Kerr injures herself celebrating stunning hat-trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matildas captain Sam Kerr has scored her first <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/kerr-in-incident-filled-debut-for-chelsea\/9cd13333-f192-47c4-874b-87f2f5f8f995\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Women&#x27;s Super League\">Women&#x27;s Super League<\/a> hat-trick for Chelsea before injuring herself while celebrating the milestone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/kerr-opens-chelsea-account-in-thumping-win\/29a7cdae-3e9b-47cb-84f1-842e4501add9\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Aussie goal-scorer \">The Aussie goal-scorer<\/a> gave fans a show as the league welcomed crowds back for the first time since the start of the global pandemic, scoring a treble to see off West Ham 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>But in a bizarre twist of fate, Kerr&#x27;s afternoon would end on a sour note when she injured herself while attempting to celebrate her decisive goal.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old collected the ball on the 18-yard box before slotting away comfortably inside six-yards after a quick give-and-go with her winger.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"385933c1-f18f-4e1e-b1cf-1c1daa1c02f6\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/385933c1-f18f-4e1e-b1cf-1c1daa1c02f6\" alt=\"Sam Kerr injures herself after stunning hat-trick. (Twitter\/Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As she ran off to celebrate, Kerr turned at speed into her defender with both players immediately clinching their sides as the Aussie went to ground.<\/p>\n<p>She required treatment after hobbling off the field with an apparent hip injury.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea manager Emma Hayes hoped Kerr would be available for Champions League midweek action<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t know what the situation is with Sam&#x27;s injury,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In terms of the hat-trick, I want to talk about the amount of running players are doing around her to help with that, especially Beth England who made a lot of selfless decisions today, and the same with Fran (Kirby) who made just as many selfless decisions.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Kerr was seen at full-time smiling as she was congratulated by her teammates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Matildas captain Sam Kerr has scored her first Women&#x27;s Super League hat-trick for Chelsea before injuring herself while celebrating the milestone. The Aussie goal-scorer gave <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=6310\" title=\"Kerr injures herself celebrating stunning hat-trick\">[&#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\/6310"}],"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=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}