{"id":1397,"date":"2026-02-02T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:15:42","slug":"real-madrids-bellingham-set-for-month-out-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/real-madrids-bellingham-set-for-month-out-with-hamstring-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid&#8217;s Bellingham set for month out with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham is expected to miss the club&#8217;s upcoming Champions League play-off matches against Benfica after suffering a hamstring injury on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Following tests carried out today on our player Jude Bellingham by Real Madrid&#8217;s medical services, he has been diagnosed with an injury to the semitendinosus muscle in his left leg,&#8221; said Los Blancos in a statement, without specifying the length of his expected absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish media reported the 22-year-old England international could miss around a month after he went off hurt in the opening stages of the 2-1 La Liga win over Rayo Vallecano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as the play-off games against Jose Mourinho&#8217;s Benfica on February 17 and 25, Bellingham is likely to miss league matches against Valencia, Real Sociedad and Osasuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Madrid coach Alvaro Arbeloa said a potential Bellingham absence would be a &#8220;big absence&#8221; but that he has an &#8220;extraordinary squad&#8221; to help fill in for the midfielder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham is expected to miss the club&#8217;s upcoming Champions League play-off matches against Benfica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}