{"id":11775,"date":"2022-11-26T22:16:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T16:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=259875"},"modified":"2022-11-26T22:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T16:46:46","slug":"saudi-arabia-players-pay-tribute-to-yasser-al-shahrani-following-injury-against-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/saudi-arabia-players-pay-tribute-to-yasser-al-shahrani-following-injury-against-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia players pay tribute to Yasser Al-Shahrani following injury against Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goalkeeper Mohammed Al-Owais, representing the Saudi team, held up Alshahrani\u2019s shirt in honour of their injured teammate as they gathered by the side of the field. After a horrific collision with Al-Owais that resulted in him being carried off against Argentina, the defender had to have surgery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Saudi Arabia squad with a message of support for Yasser Al-Shahrani after his injury against Argentina \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Drm2mBcQ9y\">pic.twitter.com\/Drm2mBcQ9y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/1596491804194521088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alshahrani was hurt during Saudi Arabia\u2019s historic 2-1 triumph, which led to King Salman announcing a national holiday for the kingdom the following day. The defender has subsequently reported from the hospital that he is doing fine and healing, although he will miss a significant amount of time due to his injury. Alshahrani was hurt during Saudi Arabia\u2019s historic 2-1 triumph, which led to King Salman announcing a national holiday for the kingdom the following day. The defender has subsequently reported from the hospital that he is doing fine and healing, although he will miss a significant amount of time due to his injury.<\/p>\n<p>After goals from Piotr Zielinski and Robert Lewandowski ended Saudi Arabia\u2019s attempts to advance a game early, Poland increased their possibilities on Saturday of making it to the World Cup\u2019s round of 16 for the first time since 1986. Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny\u2019s amazing double save from a penalty in first half stoppage time kept Poland in the match against a Saudi side that was always on the attack. Zielinski scored after 39 minutes against the flow of play, and Lewandowski put the match beyond Saudi Arabia eight minutes from time.<br \/>\nWith this outcome, Poland simply needs a point from their final Group C match against Argentina to secure their place in the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defender has subsequently reported from the hospital that he is doing fine and healing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":34242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3250,2534,814],"class_list":["post-11775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-qatar-world-cup-2022","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-saudi-arabia"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}