{"id":62409,"date":"2025-03-09T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62409"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:35:41","slug":"injury-real-madrid-to-face-rayo-vallecano-without-courtois-rudiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/09\/injury-real-madrid-to-face-rayo-vallecano-without-courtois-rudiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury: Real Madrid to Face Rayo Vallecano Without Courtois, R\u00fcdiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid will be without two of their defensive pillars as they take on Rayo Vallecano this Sunday, with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and defender Antonio R\u00fcdiger ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Carlo Ancelotti confirmed that Courtois is sidelined with knee discomfort, while R\u00fcdiger is battling an illness.<\/p>\n<p>However, both stars are expected to recover in time for Wednesday\u2019s crucial Champions League last-16 second-leg clash against Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Currently third in La Liga, Real Madrid trails leaders Barcelona by three points and Atletico Madrid by two.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Barcelona\u2019s match against Osasuna has been postponed following the tragic passing of a club doctor.<\/p>\n<p>With key absences, Los Blancos must dig deep to stay in the title race and maintain their European ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Real Madrid will be without two of their defensive pillars as they take on Rayo Vallecano this Sunday, with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and defender Antonio R\u00fcdiger ruled out. Coach Carlo Ancelotti confirmed that Courtois is sidelined with knee discomfort, while R\u00fcdiger is battling an illness. However, both stars are expected to recover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62411,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62409\/revisions\/62411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}