{"id":35707,"date":"2025-04-20T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35707\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:42:15","slug":"jan-paul-van-hecke-injury-updates-brighton-star-discharged-from-hospital-after-horror-head-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35707\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Paul van Hecke injury updates – Brighton star discharged from hospital after horror head collision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Hecke update<\/p>\n

Jan Paul van Hecke was rushed to hospital in a neck brace following a sickening clash of heads with Yunus Konak during Brighton’s 4-2 defeat at Brentford.<\/p>\n

The Seagulls defender required lengthy treatment and oxygen on the pitch before finally being carried off on a stretcher.<\/p>\n

Van Hecke, 24, was later discharged from hospital following precautionary checks.<\/p>\n

The worrying incident occurred deep into stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Konak, 19, also needed to be substituted but was able to walk off the pitch.<\/p>\n

Van Hecke, meanwhile, briefly sat up as he was assessed by medical staff, before being carefully laid back down and put on a stretcher.<\/p>\n

Both sets of supporters applauded as the Dutchman was taken straight down the tunnel while receiving oxygen.<\/p>\n

SunSport understands he was then carried into an ambulance in an oxygen mask and still in his kit.<\/p>\n

His family checked in on him in the dressing room but were not with him in the ambulance.<\/p>\n

Van Hecke\u2019s eyes were open and responsive and goalkeeper and compatriot Bart Verbruggen rang his team-mate\u2019s wife to reassure her as news of the collision spread.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Credit: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Van Hecke update Jan Paul van Hecke was rushed to hospital in a neck brace following a sickening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1923,102,9310,1924,1925,1921,886,1037,189,190,9061,1922,79,16,15,1927],"class_list":{"0":"post-35707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-afc-bournemouth","9":"tag-aston-villa","10":"tag-brentford","11":"tag-brighton-and-hove-albion","12":"tag-crystal-palace","13":"tag-live-blogs","14":"tag-manchester-city","15":"tag-pep-guardiola","16":"tag-section-sportfootball","17":"tag-section-sportfootballpremier-league","18":"tag-southampton-fc","19":"tag-sport-live-blogs","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-west-ham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114370585878579411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707","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=35707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}