{"id":81499,"date":"2026-09-28T18:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/81499"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:20:21","slug":"ankle-injury-forces-gakpo-out-of-dutch-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/81499","title":{"rendered":"Ankle injury forces Gakpo out of Dutch squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Netherlands forward Cody Gakpo has been forced out of the country\u2019s \u200bNations League games against Greece and \u200cSerbia this week because of injury, the Dutch FA (KNVB) said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gakpo, who has scored \u200b25 times in 56 appearances for \u200bthe Dutch, hurt his ankle in \u2060Sunday\u2019s 2-1 win over Serbia in Belgrade, \u200bgoing off after 17 minutes of the \u200bNations League clash following a strong challenge by Sasa Lukic.<\/li>\n<li>The KNVB said he would return to \u200bhis club Liverpool and new coach \u200bXavi Hernandez would not call up a replacement.<\/li>\n<li>Gakpo netted \u200cthe \u2060late equaliser in last week\u2019s 1-1 Nations League draw with Germany, which was the first game since the World Cup \u200bfor the \u200bNethelrands \u2060and a debut for Xavi.<\/li>\n<li>The Dutch play Greece in Thessaloniki on \u200bThursday followed by a home \u200bclash \u2060against Serbia in Eindhoven on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Gakpo misses a return to the Philips Stadion where \u2060he \u200bplayed for PSV Eindhoven \u200bbefore moving to the Premier League.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/ankle-injury-forces-gakpo-out-of-dutch-squad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands forward Cody Gakpo has been forced out of the country\u2019s \u200bNations League games against Greece and \u200cSerbia this week because of injury, the Dutch FA (KNVB) said on Monday. Gakpo, who has scored \u200b25 times in 56 appearances for \u200bthe Dutch, hurt his ankle in \u2060Sunday\u2019s 2-1 win over Serbia in Belgrade, \u200bgoing off after 17 minutes of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gakpo-out-of-Dutch-squad-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":6526,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":6526,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81501,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81499\/revisions\/81501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}