{"id":11407,"date":"2022-03-19T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=204966"},"modified":"2022-03-19T23:54:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T18:24:57","slug":"karim-benzema-will-not-play-clasico-against-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/karim-benzema-will-not-play-clasico-against-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Karim Benzema will not play Clasico against Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema will not play the Clasico against Barcelona on Sunday, scheduled at Santiago Bernabeu, following a calf injury. The Real Madrid forward was not present at Saturday\u2019s training session, reported <em>Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frenchman suffered an unfortunate injury during his side\u2019s 3-0 win over Mallorca where he netted two goals and provided one assist for Vinicius\u2019 goal. The French striker will be monitored on getting 100% fit to be able to appear for the Champions League quarter-final fixtures next month.<\/p>\n<p>Champions League draw was announced by UEFA yesterday where the 13-times European Champions were drawn against Chelsea. The 1st leg of the quarterfinal will be played on April 6, 2022, at 12:30 am IST followed by the return leg on 13 at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The La Liga top scorer is the key player for the Whites scoring most goals for the club in crucial times. Benzema powered Los Blancos in a must-win match with a hat trick knock out Paris Saint-Germain from UCL this month while they were trailing by 1-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frenchman was absent at the training session for Real Madrid on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":33877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[661,177,312,1817,266],"class_list":["post-11407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barcelona","tag-champions-league","tag-chelsea","tag-karim-benzema","tag-real-madrid"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}