{"id":12625,"date":"2025-04-12T03:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/12625\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T03:48:11","slug":"tammy-abraham-prays-on-the-pitch-after-mike-maignans-sickening-collision-with-ac-milan-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/12625\/","title":{"rendered":"Tammy Abraham prays on the pitch after Mike Maignan’s sickening collision with AC Milan teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"

AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan was stretchered off after a brutal collision with teammate Alex Jimenez.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The incident occurred in the 52nd minute of Milan’s 4-0 win over Udinese when Maignan raced out of his box to clear a long ball played out from Udinese’s backline.<\/p>\n

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Players from Milan and Udinese were immediately concerned for Maignan and JimenezCredit: Getty\"Goalkeeper<\/a><\/p>\n

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Goalkeeper Maignan taken off the field via a stretcher following the collisionCredit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Maignan, his attempt to head the ball away from danger ended with him hitting his head against Jimenez as both had eyes for the ball.<\/p>\n

The collision rendered Maignan unconscious as the referee called an immediate halt to the contest.<\/p>\n

Medical staff rushed to Maignan’s aid and immediately placed him in the recovery position.<\/p>\n

Maignan was subsequently taken from the field on a stretcher.<\/p>\n

The incident left several of Maignan’s Milan teammates extremely concerned for his health including substitute striker Tammy Abraham, who dropped to his knees and prayed for the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, multiple reports claimed Maignan was conscious and talking by the time he went off the pitch.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman has since been transported to hospital for further assessments.<\/p>\n

He was subsequently replaced by Marco Sportiello in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n

Despite Jimenez’s involvement in the collision, he remained on the field for a further 20 minutes before he was taken off for Abraham.<\/p>\n

At the time of the incident, Milan lead 2-0 via goals from Rafael Leao and Strahinja Pavlovic.<\/p>\n

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Abraham dropped to his knees and prayed for Maignan’s healthCredit: DAZN<\/p>\n

Second-half strikes from Theo Hernandez and Tijjani Reijnders completed the four-goal rout.<\/p>\n

Despite the victory, the immediate thoughts of Milan’s players were with Maignan.<\/p>\n

In a post-match interview, Christian Pulisic told DAZN: “The most important thing is that Mike is OK. Our thoughts are with him.”<\/p>\n

Goalscorer Leao added: “With what had happened before in Udine, it’s a strange environment.<\/p>\n

“We came in focused, having prepared well for the game after a good week of work.<\/p>\n

“This victory, however, is for Maignan.”<\/p>\n

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Although Milan’s players were excited with the win, their thoughts were with MaignanCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Milan defender Matteo Gabbia said: \u201cFortunately, Mike is fine. We all asked the doctor how he was, and he reassured us by telling us that he\u2019s in the hospital for tests, but he\u2019s doing okay. He\u2019s a great captain, he also stuck his face into a dangerous situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The win for Milan moved them to 51 points but kept them in ninth on the Serie A table, as they sit four points behind sixth-placed Lazio who occupy the league’s last European qualification spot.<\/p>\n

As for Udinese, the defeat to the Italian giants was their fourth-straight in the league and left them 11th on 40 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan was stretchered off after a brutal collision with teammate Alex Jimenez. The incident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[884,8636,8633,94,8641,2998,8632,8637,8635,8639,8638,8634,79,8631,8640,16,15,8642],"class_list":{"0":"post-12625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-ac-milan","9":"tag-christian-pulisic","10":"tag-collision","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-football-news","13":"tag-latest","14":"tag-mike-maignan","15":"tag-rafael-leao","16":"tag-reaction","17":"tag-result","18":"tag-score","19":"tag-serie-a","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tammy-abraham","22":"tag-udinese","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114322951592839096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}