Beth Mead: England and Arsenal have an ACL damage and will miss the World Cup

England and Arsenal star Beth Mead has suffered an ACL damage which places her participation within the World Cup unsure.

The Euro 2022 Golden Boot winner will go to a surgeon within the coming days however is predicted to be out for an “prolonged interval”, Arsenal have confirmed, with subsequent summer season’s World Cup simply eight months away.

The ahead, who has scored 37 targets in 102 video games for his membership and 29 targets in 50 for his nation, picked up the damage throughout Arsenal’s 3-2 defeat at house to Manchester United on the weekend.

“We will verify that Beth Mead suffered a ruptured ACL in our sport in opposition to Manchester United on the Emirates Stadium on Saturday,” an Arsenal assertion learn.

“Sadly, this implies Beth is about for an extended interval on the sidelines. She can be seeing a surgeon within the coming days, after which additional particulars of timescales can be decided.

“Everybody on the membership will now help Beth and work arduous to get her again on the pitch as quickly as potential.”

Mead has scored three targets within the WSL and two within the Champions League for the Gunners this season, following her starring position in England’s European Championship conquer the summer season.

She was named participant of the event and received the Golden Boot with six targets, and final month she was named runner-up within the Ballon d’Or.

England can be again in main tournaments subsequent summer season on the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, from July 20.

It has been an especially difficult month for Mead, who lately defended herself over feedback attributed to her in an interview with The Guardian during which she was quoted as saying the dearth of range in England’s ladies’s squad was “a fluke”.

After England’s 4-0 pleasant win over Japan earlier this month, Mead stated Sky Sports activities Information that the article was “unfair” and never a “true reflection” of herself.

Mead pulled out of the England squad the next day because of household causes, after profitable his fiftieth cap for the Lionesses within the win in opposition to Japan.

The information of Mead’s damage comes lower than per week after Sky Sports activities aired a characteristic on Contained in the WSL which confirmed that feminine soccer gamers are as much as six occasions extra prone to endure an ACL damage than their male counterparts.

West Ham’s Jessica Ziu, Aston Villa’s Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah and Tottenham duo Kyah Simon and Ellie Brazil are simply among the gamers banned this season alone.

The difficulty was additionally introduced up throughout this summer season’s EC. Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas missed the event after rupturing her ACL simply days earlier than Spain’s opening match. Simone Magill additionally suffered the identical damage in Northern Eire’s opening sport of the event in opposition to Norway, simply days after signing for Aston Villa.

France striker Marie-Antoinette Katoto additionally limped off in her second group stage match in opposition to Belgium, having additionally ruptured her ACL. She had been one of many favorites to win the Euro 2022 Golden Boot.

Hayes: “Outrageous” gamers are put in such positions

Talking earlier than the information of Mead’s damage broke, Chelsea Girls’s supervisor Emma Hayes stated the welfare of the gamers wanted to be checked out, including that it was “time to start out placing the gamers first”.

Erin Cuthbert has loved a busy run with membership and nation, whereas Chelsea have confirmed midfielder Pernille More durable can be out for “a major interval” after present process surgical procedure on a hamstring damage sustained on worldwide responsibility with Denmark.

“I’ve made it clear that participant welfare must be reviewed for the gamers,” Hayes stated.

“I imply Erin Cuthbert went away with Scotland, performed on Saturday they usually performed her once more lower than 48 hours afterward a Monday. I feel it is outrageous that gamers are put in these positions.

“Sure there needs to be a world calendar and sure I do know there can be adjustments so possibly they are often with internationals [teams] for longer intervals after which along with his membership for longer intervals, as a result of it is actually the touring and in between that causes lots of issues I might say.

“For somebody like Pernille, she all the time needs to do all the things, and it is not anybody’s fault typically with these accidents. They arrive for a lot of totally different causes.

“However I actually really feel that gamers who play within the World Cup, European Championship, to get two weeks relaxation between seasons is unacceptable for them, neglect the membership gamers and nations, we have now to start out placing the gamers first.”