{"id":508567,"date":"2026-02-15T16:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508567"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:21:33","slug":"real-provide-injury-update-on-mbappe-ahead-of-the-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/real-provide-injury-update-on-mbappe-ahead-of-the-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Real provide injury update on Mbappe ahead of the Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have given more details about the injury of the team\u2019s superstar Kylian Mbappe ahead of their UCL match vs. Benfica in 2 days. Los Blancos will face the Portuguese team in their UCL playoff match as the 2 clubs will fight for a place in the 1\/8 finals of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The two clubs played against each other recently as Benfica shocked Real Madrid 4-2, and that cost the Royal Club a place in the top 8, while the Portuguese giants advanced to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>Kylian netted both Los Blancos goals in their 4-2 defeat in Portugal. Los Blancos defeated Real Sociedad 4-1 during the weekend in LaLiga, but the French superstar missed the game, and now his club has given an update about his injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal club manager, Alvaro Arbeloa, revealed that the French forward didn\u2019t play in the league as a precautionary measure, as the club didn\u2019t want to take any risks ahead of the important matches in the Champions League:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKylian is doing fantastic. Mbappe has been dealing with small discomfort, and that\u2019s why we didn\u2019t risk him before the UCL clash.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Arbeloa: \u201cKylian Mbapp\u00e9 will be ready to START vs Benfica on Tuesday\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to risk him against Real Sociedad but he\u2019s good\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XRdfkBi2J2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XRdfkBi2J2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2023001883057774772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have given more details about the injury of the team\u2019s superstar Kylian Mbappe ahead of their UCL match vs. Benfica in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508568,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16906,17375],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17949,25864],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Los Blancos gave more information about Kylian\u2019s injury.","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\/508567"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508569,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508567\/revisions\/508569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508567"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508567"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}