{"id":334,"date":"2026-04-08T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:41:28","slug":"boro-boss-sorry-for-sierra-leones-alex-bangura-after-injury-set-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Boro Boss Sorry for Sierra Leone&#8217;s Alex Bangura after Injury Set-back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By: Hannah Farma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Middlesbrough boss, Kim Hellerg\u00a0said he felt desperately sorry for Alex Bangura after the left-back suffered yet another injury blow and was forced off at Swansea clash and could miss Saturday&#8217;s game against Portsmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangura featured in eight of Hellberg&#8217;s first nine games in charge but was then sidelined for two months through injury. After his return, he was handed a place in the starting XI at Swansea and scored Boro&#8217;s opener before conceding a penalty and over 10 minutes before the break he was forced off with injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hellberg said: \u201cIt\u2019s too early to say [how serious the injury is] but of course he is distraught. &#8220;You go out after being injured, you go back and do those 25 minutes, you&#8217;re looking like a Roberto Carlos left-back again and it\u2019s tough. I feel very sorry for him. He\u2019s a brilliant boy and a brilliant footballer. Hopefully it\u2019s not that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Hannah Farma Middlesbrough boss, Kim Hellerg\u00a0said he felt desperately sorry for Alex Bangura after the left-back suffered yet another injury blow and was forced off at Swansea clash and could miss Saturday&#8217;s game against Portsmouth. Bangura featured in eight of Hellberg&#8217;s first nine games in charge but was then sidelined for two months through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportswriterssl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}