{"id":399881,"date":"2026-04-15T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399881\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:51:07","slug":"ekitike-to-miss-world-cup-with-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399881\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekitike to miss World Cup with Achilles injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Ekitike suffered a ruptured Achilles during Liverpool&#8217;s Champions League clash against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday and will miss the World Cup with France.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old pointed to his Achilles tendon as medical staff attended to him before he was carried off on a stretcher at Anfield, where Liverpool lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0414\/1568116-dembele-strikes-twice-as-psg-sink-liverpool\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-0<\/a> in their quarter-final second leg, exiting the competition with a 4-0 aggregate defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The French football federation was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Ekitike has 17 goals in all competitions this season since Liverpool signed him from Eintracht Frankfurt last July.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup is being held in the United States, Mexico and Canada from 11 June to 19 July. <\/p>\n<p>Watch Bayern Munich v Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday from 7.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike suffered a ruptured Achilles during Liverpool&#8217;s Champions League clash against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday and will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-399881","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\/399881","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=399881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}