{"id":214125,"date":"2025-06-25T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214125\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T21:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:10:15","slug":"harvey-elliott-nightmare-injury-concern-emerges-after-liverpool-stars-england-u21-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214125\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Elliott nightmare injury concern emerges after Liverpool star’s England U21 heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool’s Harvey Elliott scored two second-half goals as England came from behind to beat the Netherlands 2-1 in their European Under-21 Championship semi-final<\/p>\n

PA Sport<\/strong> and Matthew Abbott<\/strong><\/p>\n

21:20, 25 Jun 2025<\/p>\n

\"HarveyHarvey Elliott has starred for the England under-21s this summer(Image: UEFA via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Harvey Elliott hopes his botched goal celebration has not jeopardised his chances of helping England<\/a> retain their European Under-21 Championship title.<\/p>\n

Elliott bagged a brace as the Young Lions won 2-1 against the Netherlands in their semi-final. However, after opening the scoring, his joy turned to pain just when his celebratory knee slide got stuck in the parched pitch past the hour mark.<\/p>\n

Despite the mishap, Elliott<\/a> soldiered on and propelled England within touching distance of consecutive titles with an 86th-minute decider, following Noah Ohio’s equaliser for the Dutch.<\/p>\n

Post-match, the Liverpool<\/a> player told Channel 4: “I don’t know what I’ve done to my knee, but it’s bloody hurting, so hopefully it’s nothing too silly.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Harvey Elliott sends clear message to Arne Slot and Liverpool amid transfer talk<\/a>READ MORE: Liverpool striker transfer verdict delivered – \u00a3150m Isak decision, short-term fix, Ekitike move<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s a silly decision from me [to do the knee slide], to be honest, but it’s just one of them, live in the moment.<\/p>\n

“You do these things, but I forgot the pitch was ridiculously dry, and it is the price I have got to pay.” Paying that price will hopefully not mean missing Saturday’s final against France or Germany.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing,” Elliott exclaimed when describing the winning feeling. A really tough game, but bloody hell, to win it, it’s incredible.<\/p>\n

“I can’t put it into words. Another final, I know I keep saying it, but we need to rest, recover and go again, because it’s not over yet.<\/p>\n

“Tonight was another amazing experience, really tough conditions once again. But the way the lads dug deep, I think we deserve this final. It’s just about recovering, resting and going again.<\/p>\n

“It’s been really tough preparation-wise. We had many players that had to drop out because of the Club World Cup<\/a>, transfers and things like that. It’s just one last push, and hopefully, we can be crowned champions again.”<\/p>\n

His head coach, Lee Carsley, singled Elliott out for particular praise. “The team were outstanding,” he told Channel 4.<\/p>\n

“The way we started the game was exciting, and disappointing to come in at half-time without scoring. Second half, we played with real resilience.<\/p>\n

“We stood up and got over the line. We can really look forward to the final.<\/p>\n

“Harvey Elliott and Charlie Cresswell didn’t play a lot of minutes in the last campaign. We knew how important they would be \u2013 they have taken that on board, the responsibility of driving the rest of the squad.<\/p>\n

“Harvey has been outstanding; he is one of many who have stood up. They’re developing as a team and a squad; I think this team is outstanding.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool’s Harvey Elliott scored two second-half goals as England came from behind to beat the Netherlands 2-1 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,12632,4884,22689,763,1374,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-england-football-team","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-harvey-elliott","13":"tag-liverpool-fc","14":"tag-liverpool-fc-injuries","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114746060337739934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214125","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=214125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}