{"id":676182,"date":"2026-07-06T06:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676182\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:11:07","slug":"world-cup-2026-englands-jordan-henderson-injures-wrist-in-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676182\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: England&#8217;s Jordan Henderson injures wrist in celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England midfielder Jordan Henderson suffered a &#8220;really bad&#8221; wrist injury while celebrating his side&#8217;s dramatic World Cup last-16 win over Mexico, manager Thomas Tuchel said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henderson appeared to land awkwardly after falling from the advertising hoardings at Mexico City&#8217;s Azteca Stadium following England&#8217;s 3-2 victory and was pictured leaving the pitch on a stretcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old Brentford midfielder&#8217;s World Cup has been limited to a six-minute appearance at the end of England&#8217;s Group L win over Panama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jordan [Henderson] just fell over and injured his wrist. It looks really bad,&#8221; said England manager Thomas Tuchel on BBC One after his side&#8217;s win on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a quite serious injury and it doesn&#8217;t fit to the evening that Jordan is now not with us. The doctor told me he is in hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henderson is being accompanied by a member of England&#8217;s support staff and will not travel back with the team on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s next match is a quarter-final tie against Norway in Miami on Saturday 22:00 BST, which you can follow on BBC Radio 5 Live and the BBC Sport website and App. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henderson is likely to join Reece James, who picked up a hamstring injury in England&#8217;s opening match, on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jarell Quansah is unavailable after receiving a straight red card during England&#8217;s victory over Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England midfielder Jordan Henderson suffered a &#8220;really bad&#8221; wrist injury while celebrating his side&#8217;s dramatic World Cup last-16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-676182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676182","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=676182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}