{"id":398935,"date":"2026-04-15T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398935\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:56:09","slug":"hugo-ekitike-stretchered-off-for-liverpool-against-psg-in-potential-world-cup-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398935\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike stretchered off for Liverpool against PSG in potential World Cup blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Liverpool forward Hugo Ekitike was carried \u200coff the pitch in \u200ctears during the \u200cfirst half of \u200ctheir Champions League quarter-final \u200csecond-leg clash with Paris Saint-Germain on \u200cTuesday after sustaining \u2060what \u200cappeared to be a \u200bserious injury.<\/p>\n<p>The forward pointed to his \u200bAchilles tendon as medical staff attended to \u2060him \u200bbefore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/football\/liverpool-lId4TMwf\/psg-CjhkPw0k\/?mid=OdLTIvyf\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he was carried off on a stretcher at Anfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cinjury could have major implications beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/liverpool\/lId4TMwf\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>&#8216;s season, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/ekitike-hugo\/ltVXPlJU\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ekitike<\/a> due to feature for France at the World Cup in June-July.<\/p>\n<p>Ekitike has 17 \u200cgoals in all competitions \u200bthis season since \u200cLiverpool signed him from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/eintracht-frankfurt\/8vndvXTk\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eintracht Frankfurt<\/a> for 69 million pounds in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool forward Hugo Ekitike was carried \u200coff the pitch in \u200ctears during the \u200cfirst half of \u200ctheir Champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-398935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398935","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=398935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}