{"id":96300,"date":"2025-05-12T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96300\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:11:09","slug":"german-footballer-tim-lemperle-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-assaulted-and-out-of-crucial-bundesliga-promotion-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96300\/","title":{"rendered":"German footballer Tim Lemperle rushed to hospital after being ‘assaulted’ and out of crucial Bundesliga promotion clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

GERMAN football star Tim Lemperle was rushed to hospital after sustaining injures to his face during an assault on a night out.<\/p>\n

Koln<\/a> star Lemperle will likely miss Sunday’s huge promotion final against Kaiserslautern for a place in the Bundesliga<\/a> next season.<\/p>\n

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Tim Lemperle was rushed to hospital after being assaulted on a night outCredit: Rex<\/p>\n

Lemperle reportedly suffered a broken nose and a gash on his face on Sunday evening, according to German outlet Bild.<\/a><\/p>\n

The report claims that the striker was out with friends in a borough of Cologne.<\/p>\n

A fight broke out in a boathouse bar near the bank of the River Rhine with another group, before things settled down.<\/p>\n

But Lemperle and his pals were allegedly attacked while leaving the venue later at 9pm local time.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old former Frankfurt<\/a> star was taken to a local hospital where he stayed overnight until Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Koln boss Friedhelm Funkel hasn’t had any contact with Lemperle, who was forced to miss training on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Funkel said: “I know he was physically assaulted on Sunday. He sustained facial injuries. <\/p>\n

“The likelihood of him playing on Sunday is slim. It can’t be completely dismissed, but it is slim. I can’t say anything more about it.”<\/p>\n

The police<\/a> are investigating the incident and appealing for witnesses.<\/p>\n

Lemperle has scored 10 goals and provided six assists in 24 second division appearances this season.<\/p>\n

And he was nailed on starter for the final, after having been named in the starting XI in 22 out of 24 league games this term.<\/p>\n

FC Koln finished second in Bundesliga<\/a> 2, behind Hamburg who were automatically promoted to end a seven-year absence from the German top flight.<\/p>\n

Lemperle’s team-mates take on Kaiserslautern, who finished just inside the playoff places in sixth, in the final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GERMAN football star Tim Lemperle was rushed to hospital after sustaining injures to his face during an assault…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[3019,2000,299,1824,459,211,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-96300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bundesliga","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-instagram","13":"tag-nhs","14":"tag-section-sportfootball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114496922186973323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96300","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=96300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}