Trent Alexander-Arnold has been ruled out of Real Madrid’s Club World Cup semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday evening.
The England international has played in all five of Madrid’s Club World Cup matches to date following his £8.4 million move from Liverpool initially of June.
Nevertheless, Alexander-Arnold will miss Madrid’s semi-final on the MetLife Stadium in Recent Jersey after he suffered a muscular injury in training on Tuesday.
‘Yesterday [Tuesday] he felt something, a small discomfort but not ok to play today,’ Madrid head coach Xabi Alonso said before the semi-final against PSG.
‘Needless to say it’s a blow. But we want to take care of that, it’s a part of the job and hopefully we won’t miss him.
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‘We’d like to defend as a team, to defend as a unit, performance competing with the ball and against the ball, it’s a giant challenge today.’
Madrid haven’t yet confirmed the extent of Alexander-Arnold’s injury and whether he could recuperate in time for the Club World Cup final against Chelsea on Sunday.
Real Madrid vs PSG line-ups
PSG: Donnarumma; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Beraldo, Mendes; Neves, Vitinha, Ruiz; Doue, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia
Real Madrid: Courtois; Valverde , Rudiger, Asencio, Fran Garcia; Guler, Tchouameni, Bellingham; Vinicius, Mbappe, Gonzalo Garcia
Federico Valverde will replace Alexander-Arnold at right-back, while Raul Asencio is available in for the suspended Dean Huijsen in central defence.
Kylian Mbappe also starts for the primary time this tournament after he was hospitalised last month attributable to acute gastroenteritis.
The France international, who has lost 6kg attributable to his illness, has made two substitute appearances against Juventus and Borussia Dortmund.
PSG, meanwhile, need to make one enforced change from their 2-0 win against Bayern Munich within the quarter final as Beraldo replaces the suspended Willian Pacho.
Luis Enrique has also opted to begin Ousmane Dembele in attack with Bradley Barcola dropping to the bench.
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