{"id":116514,"date":"2026-04-14T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/asencio-unexpected-absence-in-real-madrid-for-champions-league-against-bayern\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:40:24","slug":"asencio-unexpected-absence-in-real-madrid-for-champions-league-against-bayern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/asencio-unexpected-absence-in-real-madrid-for-champions-league-against-bayern\/","title":{"rendered":"Asencio, unexpected absence in Real Madrid for Champions League against Bayern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Surprise in Real Madrid&#8217;s Squad: Ra\u00fal Asencio Absent Against Bayern<\/h2>\n\n\nMadrid &#8211; Real Madrid defender Ra\u00fal Asencio is the most notable absence in \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa&#8217;s squad for the crucial second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich.\n\nThis decision is surprising, especially considering that Asencio played the full 90 minutes of the LaLiga EA Sports match against Girona.\n\nThe team is looking to turn the tie around, after the 1-2 defeat at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u stadium.\n\nDespite the absence of an official medical report, Asencio&#8217;s absence from the list of 23 players has generated great expectation.\n\nThe 23-year-old defender will not travel with the team to Munich.\n\nOn the other hand, after resting in Friday&#8217;s league match, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Antonio R\u00fcdiger return to the team.\n\nFranco Mastantuono also returns, having served his suspension for accumulation of yellow cards.\n\nDue to this, Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni has not been included in the call-up. Due to injury, Thibaut Courtois and Rodrygo Goes remain out. In addition, Jes\u00fas Fortea, Manuel \u00c1ngel, and Daniel Y\u00e1\u00f1ez were not included in the list for the match against Girona.\n\nThe complete list of those summoned is as follows:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Lunin, Fran Gonz\u00e1lez and Javi Navarro<\/li>\n<li><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Trent, Carreras, Fran Garc\u00eda, R\u00fcdiger, Mendy and Huijsen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Bellingham, Camavinga, Valverde, G\u00fcler, Ceballos and Thiago Pitarch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Vin\u00edcius, Mbapp\u00e9, Gonzalo, Brahim and Mastantuono<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise in Real Madrid&#8217;s Squad: Ra\u00fal Asencio Absent Against Bayern Madrid &#8211; Real Madrid defender Ra\u00fal Asencio is the most notable absence in \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa&#8217;s squad for the crucial second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich. This decision is surprising, especially considering that Asencio played the full 90 minutes of the LaLiga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[12514,611,4542,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-116514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-asencio","9":"tag-bayern","10":"tag-champions","11":"tag-real-madrid"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}