{"id":571252,"date":"2020-11-04T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=571252"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:06:16","slug":"kai-havertz-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/04\/kai-havertz-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Kai Havertz Tests Positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> signing <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/fed7cb61\/Kai-Havertz\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kai Havertz<\/a> has tested positive for COVID-19, the club has confirmed ahead of their Champions League tie against Rennes. The news follows a good start to his Chelsea career with seven-goal involvements to his name in 10 games, including four goals.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, the Blues will be without the German midfielder as he enters the mandatory isolation stage which should see him miss the upcoming international break with Germany and Chelsea\u2019s game against Sheffield United. Luckily for Chelsea, however, he should be back in time for the Premier League and Chelsea\u2019s return against Newcastle.<\/p>\n<h2>Havertz Tests Positive for COVID-19<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Frank Lampard has confirmed Kai Havertz has tested positive for Covid-19. As a consequence the player is now undergoing a period of self-isolation and is not involved in tonight\u2019s Champions League game versus Rennes.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CHEREN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CHEREN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1324064235987587072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Big Miss for Chelsea<\/h3>\n<p>With a Sheffield United side looking for a win \u00a0to come in the Premier League, a Havertz-less Chelsea will need to be at their best to ensure victory. Perhaps, in the absence of Havertz, Frank Lampard will hand an opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/15f3ec41\/Callum-Hudson-Odoi\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Callum Hudson-Odoi<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f586779e\/Tammy-Abraham\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tammy Abraham,<\/a> should a formation change occur.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, whoever does come into replace the German, they will struggle to have the same impact in the creative department of Frank Lampard\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<h3>Frustrating for Frank Lampard<\/h3>\n<p>After a shaky start, it looked as though Frank Lampard had finally found his best Chelsea side, and a side ready to challenge for the title. The Havertz news has since dented the hope of continued consistency, however, with the source of creativity now set to be missing for at least one game.<\/p>\n<p>The Champions League game against Rennes will give us a good indication of how capable the Chelsea squad is of covering for the absentee before the next test against Sheffield United\u00a0at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The German National team will, too, be disappointed with the news with games against the Czech Republic and Nations League games against Ukraine and a big test against Spain to come.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"dejRMGhSTCRTFRW-36Eh7w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1229392399\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'dejRMGhSTCRTFRW-36Eh7w',sig:'7JnBMl1oKthpTr1Zj4YsRUY2Tyar124r_Ulo-oDogSA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1229392399',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Chelsea signing Kai Havertz has tested positive for COVID-19, the club has confirmed ahead of their Champions League tie against Rennes. The news follows a good start to his Chelsea career with seven-goal involvements to his name in 10 games, including four goals. For now, though, the Blues will be without the German midfielder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":571255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,30,3],"tags":[5101,6758,46,5014,3380,136],"class_list":["post-571252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-chelsea","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-2020-2021-premier-league","tag-2020-21-uefa-champions-league","tag-chelsea","tag-covid-19","tag-kai-havertz","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}