{"id":500550,"date":"2026-07-20T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/bayer-leverkusen-eliesse-ben-seghir-injured-and-absent-until-further-notice\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:00:21","slug":"bayer-leverkusen-eliesse-ben-seghir-injured-and-absent-until-further-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/bayer-leverkusen-eliesse-ben-seghir-injured-and-absent-until-further-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayer Leverkusen: Eliesse Ben Seghir injured and absent until further notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eliesse Ben Seghir is facing another setback in his preparation with Bayer Leverkusen. The German club announced that the Moroccan international was injured during the warm-up before the friendly match against Sportfreunde Baumberg and will remain unavailable until further notice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Initially expected to be in the starting eleven, the 21-year-old had to withdraw just minutes before kick-off. He was replaced at the last moment by Afonso Moreira in this match, which Leverkusen won decisively with a score of 7-0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the German press, Ben Seghir reportedly felt a muscle strain in his right thigh. Coach Carles Mart\u00ednez initially explained that the staff did not want to take any risks, but further examinations later confirmed a muscle injury. The exact duration of his absence has not yet been communicated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This new unavailability is a significant blow for the former AS Monaco player, who hoped to use the summer preparation to secure a more important place within the German squad. Ben Seghir had already been sidelined for several weeks last season due to an ankle injury.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen will now monitor the progress of his physical condition before setting a potential return date. The club has so far only indicated that the Atlas Lion will remain absent until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliesse Ben Seghir is facing another setback in his preparation with Bayer Leverkusen. The German club announced that the Moroccan international was injured during the warm-up before the friendly match against Sportfreunde Baumberg and will remain unavailable until further notice.&nbsp; Initially expected to be in the starting eleven, the 21-year-old had to withdraw just minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":500548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020],"tags":[31596,31597],"maw_player":[31598],"class_list":["post-500550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany-en","tag-bayer-leverkusen-en","tag-eliesse-ben-seghir-en","maw_player-e-ben-seghir-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500552,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500550\/revisions\/500552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500550"},{"taxonomy":"maw_player","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maw_player?post=500550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}