{"id":354268,"date":"2026-03-19T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:58:10","slug":"galatasaray-forward-suffers-gruesome-thumb-injury-in-champions-league-clash-with-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354268\/","title":{"rendered":"Galatasaray forward suffers gruesome thumb injury in Champions League clash with Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lang, who Galatasaray said would undergo surgery on the injury, had been introduced as a half-time substitute for Victor Osimhen after the Nigerian striker had hurt his wrist in an early challenge.<\/p>\n

The substitute forward suffered a nasty injury of his own, though, after tumbling awkwardly beyond the Liverpool goal and appearing to slice his thumb on the advertising board.<\/p>\n

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Lang immediately went down in discomfort after attempting to stabilise himself with his right hand, with a number of home players attending to him before medics rushed over to help out.<\/p>\n

Galatasaray were forced to bring on the experienced Mauro Icardi as their second replacement up front, with Lang taken away on a stretcher after a period of treatment.<\/p>\n

He was given warm applause from around the ground, with no Galatasaray fans in attendance due to a ban on visiting supporters.<\/p>\n

Providing an update on both players, Galatasaray said: \u201cIn the first half of our away match against Liverpool in the Champions League Round of 16 second leg, our player Victor Osimhen took a blow to his arm and completed the first half, but following checks at half-time, he was not played in the second half due to the risk of a fracture in his arm.<\/p>\n

\"Officials<\/p>\n

Officials inspect advertising hoarding where Galatasaray’s Noa Lang hurt his thumb.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the match, under the supervision of our medical team, examinations at the hospital revealed a fracture in our player’s right forearm, and it was casted. A decision regarding surgery will be made in the coming days following further evaluations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second half of the same match, our player Noa Lang, who suffered an injury, sustained a serious cut to his right thumb, and it is planned for him to undergo surgery in Liverpool in the coming hours with the participation of our medical team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Turkish side had taken a 1-0 lead into the second leg at Anfield after an impressive performance in Istanbul, but found themselves blown away in the second half to exit the competition.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have set up a quarter-final tie with Paris Saint-Germain \u2013 the side that knocked them out of last year\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lang, who Galatasaray said would undergo surgery on the injury, had been introduced as a half-time substitute for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,5859,112],"class_list":["post-354268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}