{"id":7742,"date":"2012-06-23T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T05:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2012-06-23T05:13:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T05:13:46","slug":"injury-forces-out-portuguese-striker-helder-postiga-from-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7742","title":{"rendered":"Injury forces out Portuguese striker Helder Postiga from semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/postiga.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Injury forces out Portuguese striker Helder Postiga from semis\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Warsaw<\/strong>: Portugal will miss striker Helder Postiga in their Euro 2012 semifinal against the winners of the match between France and Spain due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Zaragoza striker had to be replaced by Hugo Almeida late in the opening period after suffering a hamstring injury in Thursday&#8217;s 1-0 win over Czech Republic, said the team doctor, reported Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>He would not be fit for the semi-final clash Wednesday, according to team doctor Henrique Jones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to evaluate the extent of the injury more closely but even if it is not a serious one, it looks inevitable he will be out of contention for the semi-finals,&#8221; Portuguese media quoted Jones as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to do all we can to ensure we get him back for the final, assuming Portugal make it to the trophy match July 1,&#8221; he added. <strong>(IANS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/postiga.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Injury forces out Portuguese striker Helder Postiga from semis\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Warsaw<\/strong>: Portugal will miss striker Helder Postiga in their Euro 2012 semifinal against the winners of the match between France and Spain due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Zaragoza striker had to be replaced by Hugo Almeida late in the opening period after suffering a hamstring injury in Thursday&#8217;s 1-0 win over Czech Republic, said the team doctor, reported Xinhua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1413,5247],"class_list":["post-7742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-euro-cup","tag-euro-2012","tag-helder-postiga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Injury forces out Portuguese striker Helder Postiga from semis - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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