{"id":469524,"date":"2026-05-05T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/469524\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:09:11","slug":"jesse-derry-chelsea-teenager-says-debut-was-dream-come-true-despite-head-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/469524\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Derry: Chelsea teenager says debut was dream come true despite head injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/b><\/a> forward Jesse Derry says his debut was a “dream come true” despite being taken to hospital after suffering a head injury. <\/b><\/p>\n

The 18-year-old was making his first start for Chelsea<\/a> against Nottingham Forest<\/a> on Monday, and clashed heads with opponent Zach Abbott in the 45th minute. <\/p>\n

He received oxygen on the pitch before being taken off the field on a stretcher after a lengthy stoppage.<\/p>\n

The club then confirmed that he was “conscious, talking and undergoing precautionary checks” in hospital.<\/p>\n

He has now been released, but the club will continue to monitor him.<\/p>\n

“A dream come true to start at Stamford Bridge for my Premier League debut,” Derry wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to thank all the Chelsea<\/a> medical staff, everyone at St Mary’s Hospital, my teammates, and all the fans for their great support. I can’t wait to be back playing in front of everyone very soon.” <\/p>\n

Derry, the son of former Leeds<\/a> and Crystal Palace<\/a> midfielder Shaun Derry, was making his first start for Chelsea<\/a> having made two appearances off the bench in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

He was replaced by Liam Delap as a concussion substitute. <\/p>\n

Premier League teams are permitted to make one concussion replacement per match, which does not count towards their usual substitution limits.<\/p>\n

Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White and Chelsea<\/a> goalkeeper Robert Sanchez were also involved in a nasty collision in the second half, but Forest confirmed that their midfielder was not substituted for concussion.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea forward Jesse Derry says his debut was a “dream come true” despite being taken to hospital after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-469524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116522134145136791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}