{"id":61588,"date":"2025-04-30T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61588\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T00:46:08","slug":"knee-injury-to-sideline-germanys-antonio-rudiger-for-uefa-nations-league-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61588\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee injury to sideline Germany\u2019s Antonio R\u00fcdiger for UEFA Nations League Final Four?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"iyTifK\">According to a report that was posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1917156474452627897\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.managingmadrid.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> center-back Antonio R\u00fcdiger underwent knee surgery and will be out for six to eight weeks: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"D4RUoT\">Antonio R\u00fcdiger is set to miss the Nations League Final Four in June after he underwent knee surgery that is expected to see him sidelined for 6-8 weeks. Germany will be without (Nico) Schlotterbeck and R\u00fcdiger in the tournament.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"n9rfMP\">However, Sky Sport journalist Kerry Hau (via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1917163035015475394\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>) checked in with a slightly better prognosis for the defender, which could see him return for the UEFA Nations League Final Four: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"tVZDin\">4-6 week time off for Antonio R\u00fcdiger, according to @kerry_hau. He\u2019s still hoping to be fit in time for the Nations League.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"ieT0jM\">Who\u2019s next to chime in? <\/p>\n<p id=\"duxgZC\">Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard (deep cut)<\/p>\n<p id=\"qswxxw\">Anyway, Germany head coach Julian Nagelsmann might be feeling like he is back at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavarianfootballworks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayern Munich<\/a> given the injuries he is dealing with at the moment.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fY1oG1\">Looking to catch up on all of the weekend action from the Bundesliga? Awesome, then settle in as Chuck guest hosts for Marcus on the Bavarian Podcast Works \u2014 Bundesliga Rundown with Marcus Iredhal. Let\u2019s talk above the results from the weekend, what the table looks like in the season\u2019s final weeks, dive into two games, and talk about what the future might hold for Xabi Alonso. You can get the show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/bavarian-podcast-127699281?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&amp;utm_source=copyLink&amp;utm_campaign=postshare_creator&amp;utm_content=join_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patreon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7FGKTMNCviPtSWtBftyxt8?si=Bfm2TWDqSGOYjVZftKuS5w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, or below: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"CvIMIY\">Also, be sure to stay tuned to Bavarian Podcast Works for all of your up to date coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavarianfootballworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bayern Munich<\/strong><\/a> and Germany. Check us out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BavarianPodcastWorks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a> and follow us on Twitter @BavarianFBWorks, @BavarianPodcast @TheBarrelBlog, @BFWCyler, @2012nonexistent, @TommyAdams71 and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report that was posted by @iMiaSanMia, Real Madrid center-back Antonio R\u00fcdiger underwent knee surgery and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[31804,6098,31808,31806,2000,299,12182,94,3576,31807,163,1824,6100,25563,31802,6695,9197,31805,2955,31803,6101,6093,6536,6099],"class_list":{"0":"post-61588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-antonio","9":"tag-bavarian","10":"tag-bayern-munich-injuries","11":"tag-diger","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-final","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-for","17":"tag-four","18":"tag-front-page","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-germany-international-soccer","21":"tag-injury","22":"tag-knee","23":"tag-league","24":"tag-nations","25":"tag-r","26":"tag-s","27":"tag-sideline","28":"tag-soccer-sg","29":"tag-to","30":"tag-uefa","31":"tag-works"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114424157629363430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61588","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=61588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}