{"id":206508,"date":"2025-10-11T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206508\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:23:19","slug":"saelemaekers-suffers-muscle-injury-with-belgium-and-will-return-to-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206508\/","title":{"rendered":"Saelemaekers suffers muscle injury with Belgium and will return to Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some worrying news has come from the Belgian national team camp, as Alexis Saelemaekers has picked up an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Saelemaekers\u2019 Belgium drew 0-0 against North Macedonia on Friday night, a match which saw him start but get substituted in the 59th minute. As it turns out, him being taken off might just have been more than a simple tactical decision.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Belgian FA have published a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BelRedDevils\/status\/1976994390729208190\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweet<\/a> which simply reads: \u201cUpdate: Today\u2019s medical check showed Alexis Saelemaekers won\u2019t be ready for the Wales match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to HLN (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milannews.it\/news\/lesione-muscolare-per-saelemaekers-col-belgio-alexis-torna-a-milano-per-ulteriori-controlli-593475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanNews<\/a>), the problem that Saelemaekers has sustained is of a muscular nature and he will now return to Milan for further checks to understand the nature and severity of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>It is not ideal news given that the Milan medical staff are already sweating over <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/pulisic-fine-estupinan-injured-latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a potential ankle problem for Pervis Estupinan<\/a>, who is the other starting wing-back. Zachary Athekame may have to be on guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some worrying news has come from the Belgian national team camp, as Alexis Saelemaekers has picked up an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-206508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}