{"id":498038,"date":"2026-03-27T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498038\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:47:08","slug":"republic-of-ireland-sammie-szmodics-in-hospital-after-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498038\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland: Sammie Szmodics in hospital after collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Republic of Ireland midfielder Sammie Szmodics spent Thursday night in hospital as a result of the collision with Czech Republic defender Stephan Chaloupek that left him unconscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident occurred late in extra time, moments after the Derby County midfielder had come on as a substitute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sammie was unconscious on the ground, but we have good doctors and they took care of him on the grass,&#8221; said Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson after the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s back to consciousness. He&#8217;s just being tested, checked and monitored and he will hopefully fly back to Ireland on Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Republic of Ireland had led 2-0 but lost on penalties after a late Czech Republic equaliser forced extra time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Halgrimsson said in his post-match news conference that Szmodics had been brought on specifically for the shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had a list prepared. Sammie was one of six names,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland midfielder Sammie Szmodics spent Thursday night in hospital as a result of the collision with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-498038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}