{"id":59993,"date":"2022-02-22T20:53:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=59993"},"modified":"2022-02-22T20:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:48:06","slug":"atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash","title":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid vs Man United: Rangnick confirms player to miss Champions League clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Manchester United interim coach, Ralf Rangnick, has confirmed that veteran striker Edinson Cavani will remain absent when his side tackles Atletico Madrid in the Champions League round of 16 first-leg on Wednesday in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Rangnick said Cavani would miss the Champions League clash against the LaLiga champions at the Wanda Metropolitano due to a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>The German said this on Tuesday during his pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Man United head to the match following a 4-2 victory against Leeds United in the Premier League last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, Edi [Cavani] will not be able to make the trip,\u201d Rangnick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t train and he has not been training for the last couple of weeks, so he\u2019ll not be part of the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has problems with his groin and, as long as he doesn\u2019t feel able to fully sprint, it doesn\u2019t make sense to train him and to force him back into training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s got enough experience to know by himself if he is fully available again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Manchester United interim coach, Ralf Rangnick, has confirmed that veteran striker Edinson Cavani will remain absent when his side tackles Atletico Madrid in the Champions League round of 16 first-leg on Wednesday in Spain. Rangnick said Cavani would miss the Champions League clash against the LaLiga champions at the Wanda Metropolitano due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":59992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,6181,1704,254,6028],"class_list":["post-59993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-atletico-madrid-vs-man-united","tag-champions-league","tag-nigeria","tag-rangnick"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atletico Madrid vs Man United: Rangnick confirms player to miss Champions League clash - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manchester United interim coach, Ralf Rangnick, has confirmed that veteran striker Edinson Cavani will remain absent whe ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atletico Madrid vs Man United: Rangnick confirms player to miss Champions League clash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester United interim coach, Ralf Rangnick, has confirmed that veteran striker Edinson Cavani will remain absent whe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-22T19:53:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/img-62153ddc155d2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atletico Madrid vs Man United: Rangnick confirms player to miss Champions League clash\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-22T19:53:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash\"},\"wordCount\":198,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/img-62153ddc155d2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Atletico Madrid vs Man United\",\"champions league\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rangnick\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/atletico-madrid-vs-man-united-rangnick-confirms-player-to-miss-champions-league-clash\",\"name\":\"Atletico Madrid vs Man United: Rangnick confirms player to miss Champions League clash - 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