Karim Benzema and Thibaut Courtois will be just two of the key names missing from Real Madrid’s starting line-up for today’s Club World Cup semi-final versus Al Ahly.
A muscle injury kept the 35-year-old striker out of the weekend’s defeat at Mallorca and, while he may yet join the Madrid squad in Morocco if they make the final, he was not on the plane flying out on Monday for the opening game of their campaign.
