{"id":511235,"date":"2026-04-15T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=511235"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:09:40","slug":"ekitike-to-miss-the-rest-of-the-campaign-and-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ekitike-to-miss-the-rest-of-the-campaign-and-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekitike to miss the rest of the campaign and the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France head coach Didier Deschamps has confirmed forward Hugo Ekitike will miss the World Championship after sustaining a suspected ACL injury during Liverpool\u2019s UCL loss against PSG at Anfield yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Ekitike left the pitch on a stretcher, and the Reds fear a long absence for the French striker, which could even rule him out for the beginning of next campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo went for scans today, and it is expected that they will confirm the extent of his problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEkitike sustained a serious injury in the Champions League match of his club yesterday. The severity of his problem will unfortunately prevent him from playing again in the current campaign and being part of the World Cup this summer,\u201d shared Deschamps.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo joined the club from Anfield in the past summer from Eintracht Frankfurt and has been 1 of their standout players in a difficult campaign for the Reds, with 17 goals and 6 assists in all tournaments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Les mots du s\u00e9lectionneur Didier Deschamps pour Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Hugo s\u2019est s\u00e9rieusement bless\u00e9, mardi soir, contre le PSG. La gravit\u00e9 de sa blessure va malheureusement l\u2019emp\u00eacher de terminer la saison avec Liverpool et de participer \u00e0 la Coupe du Monde. <\/p>\n<p>Hugo fait partie de\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z6nWLhIgs7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Z6nWLhIgs7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Equipe de France \u2b50\u2b50 (@equipedefrance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/equipedefrance\/status\/2044479601120817231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France head coach Didier Deschamps has confirmed forward Hugo Ekitike will miss the World Championship after sustaining a suspected ACL injury during Liverpool\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":511236,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[26812,16722],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[26813,17887],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Deschamps revealed that Hugo is out for a long time.","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\/511235"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511237,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511235\/revisions\/511237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511235"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=511235"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=511235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}