{"id":175009,"date":"2025-12-04T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175009\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:16:07","slug":"trent-alexander-arnold-injury-real-madrid-defender-ruled-out-for-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175009\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent Alexander-Arnold injury: Real Madrid defender ruled out for two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England defender Trent Alexander\u2011Arnold will be out for about two months after sustaining a thigh injury during Real Madrid&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c79xdrlq5w9t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win over Athletic Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The right-back, who has been limited to just 11 appearances in all competitions this season because of injury, provided his first La Liga assist in Real&#8217;s 3-0 victory in Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Alexander-Arnold injured his thigh 10 minutes into the second half and required medical assistance to leave the pitch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sources have confirmed to BBC Sport that the 27-year-old is expected to be sidelined for about two months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the latest blow to Alexander-Arnold, who joined Real from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> in the summer and has already missed six weeks of the season with a hamstring strain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Spain right-back Dani Carvajal also ruled out until early 2026, Uruguay midfielder Federico Valverde may have to fill in at full-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England defender Trent Alexander\u2011Arnold will be out for about two months after sustaining a thigh injury during Real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-175009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}