{"id":918080,"date":"2026-04-25T18:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/918080\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:05:22","slug":"a-costly-injury-forced-his-substitution-casting-doubt-on-the-next-german-forwards-world-cup-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/918080\/","title":{"rendered":"A costly injury forced his substitution, casting doubt on the next German forward\u2019s World Cup participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Havertz\u2019s reaction hinted at a serious injury, and his World Cup participation is now in jeopardy. The 26-year-old only returned to action gradually in mid-January after a lengthy spell on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gradually lose confidence in your body,\u201d said TV pundit and former international Hitzlsperger regarding Havertz\u2019s latest injury. The Arsenal star is normally considered a shoo-in for the World Cup; depending on how the March internationals go, Nagelsmann might even have him lined up as a first-choice centre-forward for the DFB team at the tournament this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Havertz\u2019s absence from the World Cup would therefore be particularly bitter, especially since Nagelsmann is already certain to be without Bayern Munich\u2019s Serge Gnabry, another key attacker. Gnabry recently announced he would miss the tournament because of an adductor injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Havertz\u2019s reaction hinted at a serious injury, and his World Cup participation is now in jeopardy. The 26-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[161,257523,2000,299,1824,257522,101,1514],"class_list":["post-918080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-vs-newcastle-united","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-k-havertz","tag-premier-league","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116466675012617410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918080","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=918080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}