🤕 Mbappé and Bellingham to miss the first leg against Manchester City | OneFootball

Real Madrid is going to have a challenging March, where they will have little to no availability of Kylian Mbappé and Jude Bellingham.

Jude Bellingham was injured at the start of the Real Madrid-Rayo Vallecano match and, initially, will miss the first leg against Manchester City.

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Well, the Englishman is not the only bad news, but also Kylian Mbappé. The Frenchman had been playing with knee problems for weeks but had to stop definitively before the Real Madrid-Benfica match.

The Frenchman missed the match and when Álvaro Arbeloa was asked, the coach said: "It's not my place to say the recovery time."

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After it was revealed that Real Madrid's opponent will be Manchester City, 'Cadena SER' announced that Mbappé will be out for three weeks and, therefore, will miss the first leg against the 'citizens'. It is expected that he might be available for the return leg, but for now, both he and Jude will not be at the Bernabéu.

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Let's remember that Mbappé scored a 'hat-trick' against Manchester City last year in the 'play-off' match.

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