{"id":50686,"date":"2018-12-22T10:37:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=50686"},"modified":"2018-12-22T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:37:37","slug":"real-madrids-marco-asensio-ruled-out-of-club-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/real-madrids-marco-asensio-ruled-out-of-club-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid&#8217;s Marco Asensio ruled out of Club World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid midfielder Marco Asensio is set to miss the FIFA Club World Cup final against home favourite Al-Ain after sustaining a right leg muscle injury that could sideline him for a month, the Spanish powerhouse said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>During the few minutes he played in Madrid&#8217;s 3-1 win over Kashima Antlers of Japan in the semi-final, Asensio struggled again with muscle discomfort and missed the group training on Thursday, reports Efe news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following tests carried out on Marco Asensio by the Real Madrid Medical Services, he has been diagnosed with a grade II muscle injury in the right rectus femoris,&#8221; the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Although the statement did not reveal how long Asensio was expected to be sidelined, the estimated recovery time in these cases is a month.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking their third Club World Cup in a row and the fourth in general, Real Madrid will take on first-timers Al-Ain who reached the final with three wins under their belt.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ain defeated Team Wellington of New Zealand 4-3 on a penalty shootout as they were tied 3-3 at the end of the regular time, before routing Esperance de Tunis 3-0 and prevailing over River Plate 5-4 also on a penalty shootout as they played for a 2-2 draw in the regular time.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid midfielder Marco Asensio is set to miss the FIFA Club World Cup final against home favourite Al-Ain after sustaining a right leg muscle injury that could sideline him for a month, the Spanish powerhouse said on Friday. During the few minutes he played in Madrid&#8217;s 3-1 win over Kashima Antlers of Japan in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50688,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50686\/revisions\/50688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}