{"id":87279,"date":"2025-11-25T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/real-madrid-courtois-and-huijsen-key-absences-against-olympiacos-in-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:23:41","slug":"real-madrid-courtois-and-huijsen-key-absences-against-olympiacos-in-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/real-madrid-courtois-and-huijsen-key-absences-against-olympiacos-in-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid: Courtois and Huijsen, key absences against Olympiacos in Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Significant Absences for Real Madrid in the Champions League Clash<\/h2>\n\n\nReal Madrid faces a significant challenge in the Champions League with notable absences. Thibaut Courtois and Dean Huijsen were not included in the squad for the match against Olympiacos.\n\nHuijsen&#8217;s absence leaves the team with only one central defender available for this crucial European match.\n\nThe team and coach Xabi Alonso are under pressure after failing to achieve victory in their last three matches, including draws against Elche and Rayo Vallecano, and a defeat against Liverpool earlier this month.\n\nIn addition to the already known absences of \u00c9der Milit\u00e3o, due to pubic problems, and Antonio R\u00fcdiger, who has not yet fully recovered, Huijsen is also out, having had to leave Tuesday&#8217;s training, leaving Alonso with only one option in central defense, Ra\u00fal Asencio.\n\nGoalkeeper Courtois, one of Madrid&#8217;s most outstanding players this season, is suffering from gastroenteritis, the club reported on Tuesday.\n\nDani Carvajal and Franco Mastantuono are also currently injured, although Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni returned to the squad for the match against Olympiacos after three weeks out.\n\nReal Madrid leads LaLiga and has nine points in the Champions League, but the defeat at Anfield on November 4th triggered a decline in performance, which has put the team selection, tactics, and coach Alonso&#8217;s relationship with his players under scrutiny.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The relationship with the players is &#8220;improving, because we have spent more time together&#8221;. The team now &#8220;has to respond to adversity&#8221;, starting with the match against Olympiacos.<\/p><cite>Xabi Alonso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant Absences for Real Madrid in the Champions League Clash Real Madrid faces a significant challenge in the Champions League with notable absences. Thibaut Courtois and Dean Huijsen were not included in the squad for the match against Olympiacos. Huijsen&#8217;s absence leaves the team with only one central defender available for this crucial European match. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,10674,355,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-87279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-courtois","10":"tag-injuries","11":"tag-real-madrid"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87279","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=87279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}