{"id":278274,"date":"2025-07-20T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278274\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:58:18","slug":"germanys-sarai-linder-out-of-euro-2025-semi-final-against-spain-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278274\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Sarai Linder out of Euro 2025 semi-final against Spain with ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany defender Sarai Linder will miss the European Championship semi-final against Spain on Wednesday with a left ankle ligament injury.<\/p>\n<p>Linder, 25, was forced off in the 20th minute of Germany\u2019s dramatic quarter-final win over France on Saturday which went to a sudden death penalty shootout. Fourth-choice right-back Sophia Kleinherne replaced her.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s regular starting right-back and captain Giulia Gwinn was ruled out of the tournament with a knee injury in their opening group-stage victory over Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Backup right-back Carlotta Wamser was suspended for the quarter-final following a red card in their final group-stage 4-1 defeat to Sweden. Now Linder will be absent but Wamser will return from her suspension to play Spain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6505340 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2226019533-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Linder sustained the injury against France on Saturday (Alexander Hassenstein\/Getty Images)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>      Linder sustained the injury against France on Saturday (Alexander Hassenstein\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Chelsea\u2019s Sjoeke Nusken will also miss the semi-final after she received a yellow card in the group stage and the quarter-final while Kathrin Hendrich\u2019s red card for pulling France captain Griege Mbock\u2019s hair rules her out too.<\/p>\n<p>The door remains open for Linder to recover in time for Sunday\u2019s final should Germany beat Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Germany kick-off against Spain on Wednesday in Zurich while England play Italy on Tuesday in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Marcio Machado\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany defender Sarai Linder will miss the European Championship semi-final against Spain on Wednesday with a left ankle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,84559,9201],"class_list":{"0":"post-278274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-womens-euros","12":"tag-womens-soccer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114887570578140516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278274","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=278274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}