{"id":15151,"date":"2025-04-07T18:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=585663"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:15:29","slug":"uefa-champions-league-this-player-to-start-for-real-madrid-against-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/uefa-champions-league-this-player-to-start-for-real-madrid-against-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Champions League: This player to start for Real Madrid against Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid fans have a good news to cheer about as one of their starters has been declared fit to play in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals first leg against Arsenal. The player is none other than their goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois who was injured for a long time and now has fully recovered. Fabrizio Romano gave this news on Monday via his official Instagram handle.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid fans have a reason to celebrate ahead of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg, as star goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has been declared fit to play. The Belgian shot-stopper has fully recovered from his long-term injury and is now ready to return to action.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned transfer expert Fabrizio Romano shared the update on Monday via his official Instagram handle, confirming that Courtois is back in full training and available for selection.<\/p>\n<p>Courtois has been sidelined for several months due to a serious knee injury, with Andriy Lunin stepping up in his absence. However, the return of their No. 1 comes as a massive boost for Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s side as they gear up for one of the most crucial stages of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid will be hoping Courtois\u2019 presence between the posts will provide them with added confidence and solidity as they aim for yet another Champions League crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid fans have a good news to cheer about as one of their starters has been declared fit to play in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals first leg. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3413,3336,2026,3816,3796,3919,266,2566,3916],"class_list":["post-15151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-andriy-lunin","tag-aurelien-tchouameni","tag-carlo-ancelotti","tag-courtois","tag-football","tag-la-liga","tag-real-madrid","tag-thibaut-courtois","tag-uefa-champions-league-2024-25"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}