{"id":354280,"date":"2026-03-19T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354280\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:06:07","slug":"noa-lang-galatasaray-midfielder-set-for-surgery-on-cut-thumb-after-champions-league-defeat-by-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354280\/","title":{"rendered":"Noa Lang: Galatasaray midfielder set for surgery on cut thumb after Champions League defeat by Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galatasaray also confirmed that Victor Osimhen suffered a fracture to his right forearm during the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Nigeria forward went down holding his arm following a challenge with Ibrahima Konate in the eighth minute, but he played on until he was replaced by Leroy Sane at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Following the match, a check-up at the hospital under the supervision of our medical team revealed that our player had a fracture in his right forearm, and a cast was applied,&#8221; Galatasaray said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A decision regarding surgery will be made in the coming days after further evaluation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buruk complained about referee Pawel Raczkowski&#8217;s decision-making following Osimhen&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Looking at Osimhen&#8217;s position, we saw that Konate was able to commit these fouls very easily, he could easily apply any kind of foul,&#8221; Buruk said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While we were expecting the best referee in the world, perhaps one of the worst referees officiated the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool will face reigning champions Paris St-Germain in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galatasaray also confirmed that Victor Osimhen suffered a fracture to his right forearm during the first half. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-354280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354280","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=354280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}