{"id":18748,"date":"2025-09-10T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18748"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:04:11","slug":"marmoush-suffers-knee-injury-in-egypts-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18748","title":{"rendered":"Marmoush suffers knee injury in Egypt&#8217;s World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush suffered a knee ligament injury during Egypt&#8217;s 0-0 draw with Burkina Faso in their World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Egypt moved a step closer to qualifying for next year&#8217;s tournament, maintaining a five-point lead over second-placed Burkina Faso in Group A with two rounds remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The evening, however, took a worrying turn for the Pharaohs when Marmoush was forced off the pitch nine minutes into the game following a heavy challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Egypt&#8217;s team doctor, Mohamed Abu El-Ela, confirmed the injury was &#8220;a bruised knee ligament&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The player will undergo an X-ray upon his arrival to Cairo Wednesday morning,&#8221; the Egyptian Football Association said on its official X account, citing the doctor.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush suffered a knee ligament injury during Egypt&#8217;s 0-0 draw with Burkina Faso in their World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.\u00a0 Egypt moved a step closer to qualifying for next year&#8217;s tournament, maintaining a five-point lead over second-placed Burkina Faso in Group A with two rounds remaining.\u00a0 The evening, however, took a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}