{"id":18209,"date":"2022-05-15T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/15\/why-michael-keane-is-absent-for-everton-vs-brentford\/"},"modified":"2022-05-15T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:00:40","slug":"why-michael-keane-is-absent-for-everton-vs-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/15\/why-michael-keane-is-absent-for-everton-vs-brentford\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Michael Keane is absent for Everton vs Brentford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An explanation for the absence of Michael Keane from Everton\u2019s latest matchday squad has been provided on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Toffees are of course primed to return to action in short order.<\/p>\n<p>Amid their ongoing battle to stave off relegation to the Championship, Frank Lampard\u2019s troops have welcomed Thomas Frank\u2019s Brentford to Goodison Park, hopeful of making it four successive outings without defeat.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, it came as a major surprise when, upon the club\u2019s squad to take on the Bees being unveiled, a key member of Everton\u2019s backline was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The player in question? Michael Keane.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today\u2019s Blues. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVEBRE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EVEBRE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NkwthQeSUm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NkwthQeSUm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1525845963763437569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of kick-off on Merseyside, Frank Lampard was therefore inevitably drawn on the whereabouts of his central defender.<\/p>\n<p>And Everton\u2019s boss went on to reveal that Keane\u2019s absence on Sunday comes owing to the former Manchester United man coming down with a last-minute bout of illness:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">? | Frank Lampard has confirmed that Michael Keane misses <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVEBRE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EVEBRE<\/a> through illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1525852569507176448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/live-streaming-match-previews\/everton-vs-brentford-live-streaming-watch-premier-league-online\/\">Everton vs Brentford live streaming: Watch Premier League online<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/features\/player-ratings-fan-reaction-more-title-race-to-go-down-to-final-day-as-manchester-city-held-by-west-ham\/\">Player ratings, fan reaction &amp; more: Title race to go down to final day as Manchester City held by West Ham<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 An explanation for the absence of Michael Keane from Everton\u2019s latest matchday squad has been provided on Sunday afternoon. The Toffees are of course primed to return to action in short order. Amid their ongoing battle to stave off relegation to the Championship, Frank Lampard\u2019s troops have welcomed Thomas Frank\u2019s Brentford to Goodison Park, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-18209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}