{"id":315105,"date":"2026-04-08T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=315105"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:40:08","slug":"thibaut-courtois-injury-latest-after-missing-real-madrid-vs-bayern-munich-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/thibaut-courtois-injury-latest-after-missing-real-madrid-vs-bayern-munich-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Thibaut Courtois injury latest after missing Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>Thibaut Courtois is about to miss each of Real Madrid\u2019s Champions League quarter-final games against Bayern Munich (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thibaut Courtois has missed Real Madrid\u2019s Champions League match against Bayern Munich as a result of a thigh injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgium international was forced off at half time during Madrid\u2019s 2-1 win against Manchester City within the Champions League last-16 on the Etihad Stadium last month.<\/p>\n<p>Courtois subsequently missed Madrid\u2019s 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid in La Liga, in addition to their 2-1 defeat away to Mallorca last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Andriy Lunin has deputised for Madrid in Courtois\u2019 absence and has been handed his third start in a row for the primary leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie against Bayern Munich on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering his injury within the victory against City on March 17, Courtois was ruled out for around six weeks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_290647242-35e9.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27889862\" alt=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ruben Albarran\/Shutterstock (16785745dk) Andriy Lunin of Real Madrid CF Real Madrid v Atletico de Madrid, La Liga Football match, Estadio Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - 22 Mar 2026\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Andriy Lunin will start Real Madrid\u2019s Champions League tie against Bayern Munich (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An announcement from Madrid read: \u2018Following tests carried out today on our player Thibaut Courtois by the Real Madrid Medical Services, he has been diagnosed with a muscle injury within the rectus femoris of his right quadriceps. His recovery will likely be monitored.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Alvaro Arbeloa insists he has the \u2018utmost confidence\u2019 in Lunin\u2019s ability to exchange Courtois.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We haven\u2019t set any deadlines,\u2019 Arbeloa said before Madrid\u2019s win over Atletico when asked about Courtois\u2019 return from injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The 2-week break will help us so much, and we\u2019ll see after that. Right away, we\u2019re not setting a deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There are risks involved each time I put a player on the sector. There are numerous things people don\u2019t know, but few players go onto the sector at 100 per cent with none discomfort. It\u2019s normal in competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Thibaut desired to keep playing at half-time, and it was me who decided to stop him due to the utmost confidence I actually have in Lunin. He\u2019s an important goalkeeper, and he\u2019s going to prove it. Here, the very best goalkeeper in history gets injured, and we&#8217;ve one other one.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the newest news on <meta charset=\"utf-8\"><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sportmetro\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/metrosportuk\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Chelsea urged to sign \u2018phenomenal\u2019 Real Madrid star after huge transfer mistake<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Gareth Barry names club that can deny Arsenal the Champions League<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Ray Parlour urges Mikel Arteta to drop Arsenal star in Champions League<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thibaut Courtois is about to miss each of Real Madrid\u2019s Champions League quarter-final games against Bayern Munich (Reuters) Thibaut Courtois has missed Real Madrid\u2019s Champions League match against Bayern Munich as a result of a thigh injury. The Belgium international was forced off at half time during Madrid\u2019s 2-1 win against Manchester City within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[6216,25508,5479,667,577,3166,3417,6217,1800,25507],"class_list":["post-315105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bayern","tag-courtois","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-latest","tag-madrid","tag-missing","tag-munich","tag-real","tag-thibaut"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315108,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315105\/revisions\/315108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}