{"id":35254,"date":"2025-09-17T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alexander-arnold-injured-in-champions-league-debut-with-real-madrid-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:10:15","slug":"alexander-arnold-injured-in-champions-league-debut-with-real-madrid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/alexander-arnold-injured-in-champions-league-debut-with-real-madrid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander-Arnold, injured in Champions League debut with Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Trent Alexander-Arnold Suffers Injury in Champions League Match<\/h2>\n\nThe player Trent Alexander-Arnold had to be substituted five minutes after the Champions League match between Real Madrid and Marseille began, due to an injury.\n\nThe right-back collapsed on the pitch, clutching his thigh, after a play in which he had possession of the ball at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u stadium.\n\nAlexander-Arnold, who arrived at Real Madrid from Liverpool during the summer, was replaced by the team captain, Dani Carvajal.\n\nCarvajal was later sent off in the 72nd minute, but Madrid managed to come back and win 2-1 thanks to two goals from Kylian Mbapp\u00e9.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0916%2Fr1546640_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Trent Alexander-Arnold\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe English international has started in three of Madrid&#8217;s five matches across all competitions this season, with Carvajal being the preferred option in the other two.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a very good competition [between the two players]&#8221;, commented coach Xabi Alonso last month. \u201cI like having that in each position, two players who want to show what they can do. It&#8217;s really good for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Xabi Alonso<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nAlexander-Arnold&#8217;s teammate in the English national team, Jude Bellingham, returned to Madrid&#8217;s squad for the match against Marseille for the first time this season, after undergoing shoulder surgery in July.\n\nHowever, Bellingham remained on the bench as Madrid began their Champions League campaign with a victory.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Alexander-Arnold Suffers Injury in Champions League Match The player Trent Alexander-Arnold had to be substituted five minutes after the Champions League match between Real Madrid and Marseille began, due to an injury. The right-back collapsed on the pitch, clutching his thigh, after a play in which he had possession of the ball at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,290,254,788],"class_list":{"0":"post-35254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-real-madrid","11":"tag-trent-alexander-arnold"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254","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=35254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}