{"id":455161,"date":"2023-08-14T18:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455161"},"modified":"2023-08-14T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:32:43","slug":"romain-ntamack-to-miss-world-cup-after-sustaining-heavy-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/romain-ntamack-to-miss-world-cup-after-sustaining-heavy-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Romain Ntamack to miss World Cup after sustaining heavy injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Ntamack is set to miss a home World Cup after sustaining a heavy injury &#8211; a torn anterior cruciate ligament, which will keep him sidelined for a very long time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude32 MASSIVE blow for France as Romain Ntamack is set to miss <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RWC2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RWC2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5ysnjzgsQS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5ysnjzgsQS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Planet Rugby (@PlanetRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlanetRugby\/status\/1691013865197174786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ntamack picked up the injury in France&#8217;s warm-up 30-27 win over Scotland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old limped off the field in visible pain and a later scan revealed the seriousness of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Matthieu Jalibert will likely replace Ntamach as starting fly-half.<\/p>\n<p>France begin their World Cup journey on September 8 against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is absolutely devastating, especially when you are one of the home players, you have the opportunity to play at home and you are one of the favorites to win it,&#8221; former England international Ugo Moyne said.<\/p>\n<p>The news is a huge blow for France as Ntamack is regarded as one the stars of the team with the 24-year-old also starring at the last World Cup for Les Blues in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Ntamack is set to miss a home World Cup after sustaining a heavy injury &#8211; a torn anterior cruciate ligament, which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":455163,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17142],"news_category":[20810],"gn_keywords":[17862,20924],"acf":{"announce":"The Frenchman has torn an anterior cruciate ligament","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455161"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455161"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}