Hugo Ekitike Achilles injury shocks Liverpool and France as World Cup hopes take huge hit

feel awful for the lad. one of them injuries where every fan stops making jokes for a minute because everyone knows how bad it is
 
Liverpool fans must be losing their heads at this stage. Two huge striker situations, defensive injuries all over, players leaving, personal tragedies around the club too. Just relentless.
 
Serious question. Is Achilles the one players fear most now more than ACL? Feels like that from the reactions.
 
Quick thoughts
- terrible for him
- terrible for France
- terrible for Liverpool
- Achilles injuries still scare everyone
 
The comments comparing this with ACL are interesting because they reflect current reality. ACL rehab is no longer automatically catastrophic for elite players, while Achilles rupture still has a much darker reputation.
 
Liverpool signed two massive strikers and somehow got one broken leg saga and one Achilles disaster 😬 genuinely cursed
 
Some of the Liverpool self pity is over the top, but on this one there is no debate. It is a horrible blow for club and player.
 
This whole story is grim for three reasons:
- he was in real form
- France looked like a serious World Cup favourite
- Achilles recovery is nasty compared to most injuries
 
The thing about Achilles is even when players do come back, people spend the next year watching every sprint and thinking he has lost a yard.
 
man i hate these injuries where nobody even touches him and you just know from the body language its bad
 
Mechanism matters here. Innocent movement, plant of the foot, collapse. That is why so many viewers immediately guessed Achilles.
 
i remember loads of fans saying they knew straight away just from how he tried to stand and couldnt. horrible stuff
 
i've seen enough football to know when players from both teams instantly look worried its usually terrible news. this had that feeling straight away
 
liverpool got sold the striker curse in small print lmao. jokes aside this is proper awful for the kid
 
you can say modern medicine all you want but achilles still ends versions of players
 
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