{"id":780564,"date":"2026-07-04T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:48:08","slug":"canada-manager-jesse-marsch-it-wasnt-worth-risking-alphonso-davies-hamstring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780564\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada manager Jesse Marsch: \u2018It wasn\u2019t worth risking\u2019 Alphonso Davies (hamstring)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After making his FIFA World Cup debut in the Round of 32 against South Africa, Alphonso Davies was expected to be in contention to play against Morocco with Jesse Marsch saying earlier in the week that the Bayern Munich left-back was capable of 30 to 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But there was no sign of him in Canada\u2019s 3-0 loss. Davies was not in the starting XI and wasn\u2019t used in Marsch\u2019s five substitutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After the match, Marsch told TSN\u2019s Matt Scianitti that while he had a clean MRI on Friday, he did not feel right ahead of the match and \u201cwasn\u2019t confident in his hamstring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Picking up a hamstring injury in Bayern\u2019s Champions League semi-final first leg against Paris Saint-Germain, Davies was unable to feature in the group stage and it became evident as the tournament progressed that if he would play at all, it wouldn\u2019t be anything close to 100 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFor Alphonso, he\u2019s learning to trust his body,\u201d Marsch said. \u201cAs much as he wanted to play and we wanted him to play, it just wasn\u2019t worth risking it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With Canada now out of the tournament, Davies\u2019 World Cup consisted of just 15 minutes of game time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After making his FIFA World Cup debut in the Round of 32 against South Africa, Alphonso Davies was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[244995,712,227756,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-780564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alphonso-davies-sports-soccer-player-player-statscom-922704","tag-apple-news","tag-canada-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-7590","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}