{"id":28162,"date":"2026-07-10T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/28162\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:48:30","slug":"belgium-captain-youri-tielemans-out-vs-spain-after-injury-in-warmups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/28162\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Captain Youri Tielemans Out vs. Spain After Injury In Warmups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Belgium midfielder Youri Tielemans was scratched Friday from the starting lineup in the World Cup quarterfinals against Spain after getting injured during pregame warmups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Hans Vanaken replaced Tielemans in the starting lineup in another blow to the Red Devils&#8217; depth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Tielemans is Belgium&#8217;s captain and a key component of the team&#8217;s efforts on offense and defense. The Aston Villa midfielder scored two goals in Belgium&#8217;s 3-2 comeback victory over Senegal in the round of 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Vanaken came on as a substitute and scored a goal in Belgium&#8217;s 4-1 thrashing of the U.S. on Monday. He replaced Amadou Onana, who has been ruled out for the rest of the World Cup with a torn knee ligament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Belgium has also played the World Cup without defender Zeno Debast, who has a leg injury and has been held out of action by his club, Sporting Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Kevin De Bruyne returned to Belgium&#8217;s lineup against Spain after sitting out of the win over the Americans to rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Reporting by The Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium midfielder Youri Tielemans was scratched Friday from the starting lineup in the World Cup quarterfinals against Spain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6283,3937,116,15520,5404],"class_list":["post-28162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-event_recap","tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","tag-spain","tag-wc-spain-vs-belgium-07-10-2026","tag-youri-tielemans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116897651555056679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}