Pedri knee injury hampers Spain win over Germany at Euro 2024

Spain star Pedri suffered a fairly significant knee injury on Friday during his side’s game against Germany in the Euro 2024 quarterfinals. The 21-year-old only lasted eight minutes during Spain‘s matchup with the hosts on Friday. While set to break on a counter attack, Pedri was harshly brought down by Toni Kroos in the German half. The Spanish starlet immediately held his knee following the tough tackle by the Real Madrid veteran.

Before the match could even finish, the Spanish soccer federation confirmed that Pedri endured a knee sprain during the clash. The unfortunate setback will now force the budding star to miss the remaining Euros tournament. Despite the hard tackle, Kroos was somehow not even booked by English referee Anthony Taylor.

The unfortunate news regarding the Spaniard only adds to the starlet’s injury issues. Pedri has previously suffered nine injuries over the last three years. Because of these problems, the youngster has missed a total of 85 matches for club and country. It remains to be seen how the latest setback will affect the attacking midfielder’s preparations for the 2024/25 season with Barcelona.

Fixture between two heavyweights featured many hard fouls

The early hard foul by Kroos set the tone for the entire fixture. The matchup between the two sides was a physical battle throughout the game. Both teams combined to commit 29 total fouls in 90 minutes. To put this into perspective, each of the last two Euro 2024 knockout round matchups featured 17 total fouls.

Along with the plethora of tough tackles, there were also a series of yellow cards in the game as well. Many of these bookings came directly from the overly physical matchup. Spain and Germany combined to accumulated nine total yellow cards in the first 90 minutes alone.

With Pedri out early, Spain manager Luis de la Fuente opted to replace the star with fellow midfielder Dani Olmo. While the injury was unfortunate, the substitution certainly worked…

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Author : Chris Moore

Publish date : 2024-07-05 19:31:36

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