{"id":474776,"date":"2024-01-02T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474776"},"modified":"2024-01-02T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:01:21","slug":"ancelotti-wont-target-new-defenders-in-january-despite-injury-crisis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ancelotti-wont-target-new-defenders-in-january-despite-injury-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancelotti won&#8217;t target new defenders in January despite injury crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlo Ancelotti claimed Real Madrid will not be searching for new center-backs in the upcoming January transfer window, despite their injury problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\u26aa\ufe0f Ancelotti: \u201cWe are NOT thinking about signing a new centre back in this moment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have Nacho and R\u00fcdiger as CBs. Also, we have Tchouam\u00e9ni and Carvajal \u2014 both can play as centre backs\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zNWllFjbav\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zNWllFjbav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1742150840008257603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Los Blancos recently suffered huge blow, when David Alaba tore his anterior cruciate ligament. He follows in the footsteps of Eder Militao, Eduardo Camavinga and on top of that goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n<p>That has left the Spanish team quite vulnerable at the back, but manager Ancelotti is not too concerned about key players&#8217; absence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not thinking about signing a new center back in this moment&#8221;. Ancelotti said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have Nacho and R\u00fcdiger as CBs. Also, we have Tchouam\u00e9ni and Carvajal \u2014 both can play as center backs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their injury woes, Los Blancos look quite sharp as they recently got promoted to 1st place in La Liga, tied with Girona, but with better head-to-head score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlo Ancelotti claimed Real Madrid will not be searching for new center-backs in the upcoming January transfer window, despite their injury problems. \ud83d\udea8\u26aa\ufe0f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":474397,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17413,17375],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[18854,327],"acf":{"announce":"The Italian is happy to work with what he has","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474777,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474776\/revisions\/474777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474776"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474776"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}