Liverpool striker Hugo Ekitike had to be stretchered off in the Champions League defeat by Paris Saint-Germain.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 15 Apr 2026<\/span>15 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n France international Hugo Ekitike \u2060is set to miss the FIFA World Cup 2026 after rupturing his Achilles tendon in Liverpool\u2019s Champions League defeat by Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n French newspapers Le Parisien and L\u2019Equipe reported the news of the 23-year-old\u2019s injury on Wednesday.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The striker has scored 17 goals in all competitions this season for Liverpool since joining from Eintracht Frankfurt for 69 million pounds ($93.58m) last July.<\/p>\n Ekitike pointed to his Achilles tendon as \u200cmedical staff attended to him before he was carried off on a stretcher at Anfield, where Liverpool lost 2-0 in their quarterfinal second leg, \u2060exiting the competition with \u2060a 4-0 aggregate defeat on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n The French football federation (FFF) was not immediately available for comment when contacted by the news agency Reuters.<\/p>\n The World Cup \u200cis being held in the United States, Mexico and Canada \u200cfrom \u200cJune 11-July 19.<\/p>\n Ekitike\u2019s two international goals for France \u2013 against Ukraine in a World Cup qualifier and Brazil in a friendly \u2013 came in his country\u2019s last four games.<\/p>\n He has appeared eight times in total, but started three of the last six matches and has been seen as the main understudy to Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Liverpool striker Hugo Ekitike had to be stretchered off in the Champions League defeat by Paris Saint-Germain. Published On 15 Apr 202615 Apr 2026 France international Hugo Ekitike \u2060is set to miss the FIFA World Cup 2026 after rupturing his Achilles tendon in Liverpool\u2019s Champions League defeat by Paris Saint-Germain. French newspapers Le Parisien and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PXL_20210627_155635971-1-1696493612.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80\")
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