{"id":528734,"date":"2026-04-13T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528734\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:46:08","slug":"st-helens-saints-confirm-injured-jake-wingfield-out-for-the-rest-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528734\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens: Saints confirm injured Jake Wingfield out for the rest of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens have confirmed Jake Wingfield has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury and will miss the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wingfield, 22, was hurt during the first half of the Betfred Challenge Cup quarter-final win over Catalans Dragons on Friday at the BrewDog Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The versatile forward feared the worst and had scans over the weekend, which have revealed he has ruptured his ligament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wingfield will have surgery and will not play again until next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saints head coach Paul Rowley told the club website: &#8220;For such a professional, hard-working young man, it&#8217;s gutting news, and we know he deserves so much better than this news. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a fantastic lad who we love, and we&#8217;ll make sure our medical staff and more will support him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens have confirmed Jake Wingfield has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury and will miss the rest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-528734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528734","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=528734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}