{"id":7455,"date":"2026-10-20T20:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7455"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:46:12","slug":"psg-forward-ousmane-dembele-limps-off-against-barcelona-in-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7455","title":{"rendered":"PSG Forward Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 Limps Off Against Barcelona In Champions League"},"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-baabd5ed>Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 went off injured in the first half against Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>The Ballon d\u2019Or winner pulled up clutching the back of his left thigh following a run down the left in the 19th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>He signalled to the bench and asked to come off. Spain&#8217;s World Cup-winning forward Ferran Torres replaced him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>PSG coach Luis Enrique used Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 sparingly in the French league last season and has already rested him twice in Ligue 1 during this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>The 29-year-old Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 has struggled with injury setbacks during his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>PSG was also missing star left back Nuno Mendes against Barca due to a thigh injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Barcelona midfielder Dani Olmo went off injured moments after Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 and was replaced by Fermin Lopez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>PSG defender Willian Pacho received treatment near the end of the first half. He hurt his head when L\u00f3pez accidentally kicked him after running through on goal and followed up his initial shot that was saved by goalkeeper Matvei Safonov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 went off injured in the first half against Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday. The Ballon d\u2019Or winner pulled up clutching the back of his left thigh following a run down the left in the 19th minute. He signalled to the bench and asked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7455","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\/7455","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=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}