Arsenal’s Vivianne Miedema has introduced she has ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament and has dominated herself out of the Women’s World Cup.
The Dutch striker was once carried off on a stretcher in tears after touchdown awkwardly right through closing Thursday’s Champions League sport in opposition to Lyon.
“Absolutely gutted to share I’ve ruptured my ACL in our last game against Lyon,” Miedema mentioned on Twitter. “It was one of those moments, where I knew straight away. So many things going through your head: I won’t be able to help my team anymore this season, no World Cup, surgery and rehab for a long, long time.
“I won’t be telling you I’ll come back stronger or that I’m looking forward to spending the next however many months in the gym. It will be tough with plenty of difficult days (plenty of crying, which we’ve had a lot of already), but sadly enough it’s part of football.”
The World Cup runs from 20 July to twenty August subsequent yr in Australia and New Zealand. Miedema’s damage is a huge blow for the Netherlands, who had been runners-up on the 2019 World Cup in France.
Arsenal mentioned in a commentary that the 26-year-old would go through surgical procedure within the coming days and could be dominated out for “an extended period of time”. “A more detailed timetable will be established once the operation is complete,” the membership mentioned.
Miedema is the second one Arsenal participant to endure the similar damage in a month after her fellow ahead, and off-field spouse, Beth Mead, who could also be out for the longer term.
Miedema’s absence will, like Mead’s, be an enormous loss for Arsenal, who’re 2nd within the Women’s Super League on the wintry weather spoil. Miedema has performed for Arsenal since 2017 and is the Women’s Super League’s all-time main goalscorer.