{"success":true,"data":{"id":"3dcdadd9-2198-4c67-aa50-0db8dedc4deb","title":"Belgium star suffers injury in warm-up before World Cup quarter-final with Spain","summary":"Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Not now Yes please Light Dark Thank you for registering Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in Please refresh your browser to be logged ...","content":"## Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent\n\nNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.\n\nNot now Yes please\n\nLight Dark\n\n### Thank you for registering\n\nPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in Please refresh your browser to be logged in\n\n# Belgium star suffers injury in warm-up before World Cup quarter-final with Spain\n\n[Will Castle](https://www.independent.co.uk/author/will-castle)Friday 10 July 2026 20:04 BST\n\n*   Copy link  \n\n## Bookmark popover\n\nRemoved from bookmarks\n\nClose popover\n\nYouri Tielemans (second right) had to pull out of the quarter-final(Reuters)\n\n*   Belgium were forced to make a last-minute change to their starting lineup for the [World Cup](https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/world-cup-final-tickets-fifa-infantino-b3012805.html) quarter-final against Spain. \n*   Captain Youri Tielemans sustained an injury during the warm-up session before the match. \n*   Tielemans, who was set to start alongside Nicolas Raskin, was replaced by Club Brugge midfielder Hans Vanaken. \n*   The alteration to the team occurred approximately 12 minutes prior to the scheduled kick-off. \n*   The Belgian team confirmed the change via their social media channels, stating Tielemans' replacement by Vanaken due to injury. \n\nIn full\n\n[](https://track.tracklead.org/cf/r/6a3b0b6ed118530012c19b01)[South Carolina Senior Drivers Surprised By This CoverageQuotes | 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