{"id":6505,"date":"2026-07-10T20:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6505"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:54:53","slug":"belgium-concedes-minutes-after-star-goalkeeper-thibaut-courtois-subs-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6505","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Concedes Minutes After Star Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois Subs Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was substituted due to an injury during the World Cup quarterfinal match against Spain on Friday at Los Angeles Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Courtois left the pitch \u00a0in the 71st minute after appearing to sustain an injury to his right leg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>He was replaced in goal by backup keeper Senne Lammens. Lammens is the first goalkeeper to play for Belgium in the World Cup other than Thibaut Courtois since Geert De Vlieger vs Brazil in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The match was tied 1-1 in the second half when the substitution took place. Fabian Ruiz scored the opening goal for Spain in the 30th minute, and Charles De Ketelaere equalized for Belgium in the 41st minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Shortly after coming on, Lammens had a mistake in goal as he was unable to contain Mikel Merino&#8217;s shot before his rebound found the back of the net to make it 2-1 late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>There is currently no official update from the Belgian medical staff regarding the severity of Courtois&#8217; injury or his availability for the remainder of the tournament should Belgium advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was substituted due to an injury during the World Cup quarterfinal match against Spain on Friday at Los Angeles Stadium. Courtois left the pitch \u00a0in the 71st minute after appearing to sustain an injury to his right leg.\u00a0 He was replaced in goal by backup keeper Senne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}