{"id":532093,"date":"2026-04-15T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532093\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:41:08","slug":"liverpools-hugo-ekitike-ruptures-achilles-to-miss-world-cup-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532093\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool’s Hugo Ekitike ruptures Achilles, to miss World Cup – sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugo Ekitike<\/a> will miss the World Cup<\/a> and be out for at least nine months after he ruptured his Achilles tendon against Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> in the Champions League<\/a> on Tuesday night, a source close to the France <\/a>international told ESPN.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool <\/a>forward left the pitch on a stretcher and in tears after just 22 minutes of the quarterfinal second leg at Anfield.<\/p>\n

He heard his Achilles snap before collapsing on the ground in pain, the same source told ESPN.<\/p>\n

Hugo Ekitike was injured for Liverpool playing against Paris Saint-Germain.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

For such an injury, the timescale to come back to play is between nine and 12 months.<\/p>\n

Liverpool are yet to confirm the information, but the Frenchman’s injury is a massive blow for the Reds in their final push toward a top-five finish in the Premier League<\/a>, and for France, for whom Ekitike, 23, would have featured at the World Cup in the summer.<\/p>\n

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Arne Slot said “it doesn’t look good” on Tuesday night, while Ibrahima Konat\u00e9<\/a> said: “I think it is bad. I don’t know, I have heard many things, I have no word to talk about that because with the World Cup coming it is very, very hard for him and I send him my prayers.”<\/p>\n

The club is already working on a plan for his surgery and then his rehabilitation process, the source said.<\/p>\n

The former PSG striker arrived on Merseyside last summer and had an immediate impact with 17 goals and six assists in all competitions in his first season at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike will miss the World Cup and be out for at least nine months after he ruptured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-532093","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\/532093","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=532093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}