{"id":298476,"date":"2023-11-23T13:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=298476"},"modified":"2023-11-23T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:25:34","slug":"awoniyi-out-for-months-after-groin-surgery-in-major-notts-forest-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/awoniyi-out-for-months-after-groin-surgery-in-major-notts-forest-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Awoniyi out for MONTHS after groin surgery in major Notts Forest blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Nottingham Forest suffer major injury blow with Taiwo Awoniyi facing MONTHS out following groin surgery after withdrawing from Nigeria squad<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Taiwo Awoniyi will be sitting on the sidelines for months following groin surgery\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nottingham Forest&#8217;s top scorer has a history of groin issues while at the club<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Everton players will be fed up with the owners \u2013 listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwo Awoniyi has been ruled out for &#8216;months&#8217; following groin surgery in a major blow for Nottingham Forest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian striker, who has scored four goals in 11 appearances and is Steve Cooper&#8217;s top scorer this season, has been managing the problem since October.<\/p>\n<p>He played for his country in their draw with Lesotho but withdrew from the squad and has now gone under the knife.<\/p>\n<p>It is his second significant absence for the club after he missed 15 games last season due to another groin injury.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cooper said: &#8216;It&#8217;s bad news on Taiwo, he&#8217;s had to have surgery and he is going to be out for months.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/12\/78157443-0-image-a-5_1700743186198.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Forest&#8217;s top scorer Taiwo Awoniyi will be out for months after groin surgery\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/12\/78157479-0-image-a-6_1700743258620.jpg\" height=\"404\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Steve Cooper confirmed fans will see him again this season and praised &#8216;such a good guy&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ll support him and try to get him back as quick and as fit as he can be, but it&#8217;s a really unfortunate situation and a blow for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s become an important player for us with the goals he&#8217;s scored and the goals he will score for us, but he&#8217;s such a good guy and a good professional who is desperate to do well, so to get an injury like this is harsh on him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve got to support him through the process of coming back stronger. He&#8217;s done that once before here and I&#8217;m sure he will give everything again like he did last time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You think about how well he did when he returned last season, I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s given him a good reference point to come back to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ll definitely see him again this season, but it&#8217;s groin surgery so it will take a little while.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Forest&#8217;s next match is at home against Brighton on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have won two of their last Premier League games and have only lost one of their last six, a 3-2 defeat at West Ham in their previous outing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cooper&#8217;s side sit 14th in the table with 13 points after 12 games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12784015\/Nottingham-Forest-injury-blow-Taiwo-Awoniyi-MONTHS-groin-surgery-withdrawing-Nigeria-squad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest suffer major injury blow with Taiwo Awoniyi facing MONTHS out following groin surgery after withdrawing from Nigeria squad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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