{"id":343225,"date":"2025-12-11T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:46:08","slug":"brightons-stefanos-tzimas-to-miss-rest-of-season-after-acl-injury-on-full-premier-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343225\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton\u2019s Stefanos Tzimas to miss rest of season after ACL injury on full Premier League debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Stefanos Tzimas of Brighton\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2249910353-scaled-e1765477987409-1024x682.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\"> Alex Pantling\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion striker Stefanos Tzimas has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering an anterior cruciate knee ligament (ACL) rupture.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old was hurt in innocuous circumstances during the first half of his first Premier League start, the 4-3 defeat against Aston Villa at the Amex Stadium on December 3.<\/p>\n<p>Tzimas planted his feet and twisted a knee in the turf when closing down Villa defender Pau Torres. He limped off after 24 minutes following lengthy treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Fabian Hurzeler said during his press briefing on Friday for Sunday\u2019s 1-1 home draw against West Ham that Tzimas had suffered a \u201clong-term injury\u201d and was set to be out for \u201cmonths\u201d. The full extent of the injury has been confirmed by tests and surgery will rule him out until pre-season in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is cruelly timed for Tzimas, just as he was making first-team headway. His full league debut against Villa was cut short three days after scoring his first league goal as a substitute to seal a 2-0 victory at Nottingham Forest. Tzimas has scored three goals in 12 appearances overall since a \u00a320million move from German side Nurnberg, netting twice in a 6-0 win away to Oxford United in the Carabao Cup in August.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of Tzimas does not necessarily increase the chances of Evan Ferguson returning in January from a season-long loan with Roma, as he is regarded by Brighton as a different type of striker to Tzimas. The 21-year-old Republic of Ireland international has scored once in 14 outings for the Serie A club, including six starts.<\/p>\n<p>Roma are at Celtic on Thursday in the Europa League. Roma manager Gian Piero Gasperini, speaking to Italian media ahead of the match in Glasgow, said: \u201cThere\u2019s no dislike or sympathy for the players; it\u2019s their performances. Ferguson has had plenty of chances, but of course we\u2019re waiting for him. He\u2019s young, and we can expect him to perform better, not so much technically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hadn\u2019t had a direct relationship with (Mario) Hermoso, but his technical and dressing room qualities have allowed him to be a pillar. I truly hope that\u2019s the case for Ferguson too, that he can express all this from now on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Pantling\/Getty Images Brighton &amp; Hove Albion striker Stefanos Tzimas has been ruled out for the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[35420,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-343225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-brighton-hove-albion","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}