{"id":81779,"date":"2026-09-06T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/81779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:00:14","slug":"a-piece-of-good-news-to-gladden-mourinhos-heart-ahead-of-the-inter-milan-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/81779\/","title":{"rendered":"A piece of good news to gladden Mourinho&#8217;s heart ahead of the Inter Milan clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have received a boost ahead of their eagerly awaited clash with Inter Milan, as Los Blancos open their UEFA Champions League league-phase campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribuna.com\/en\/news\/2026-09-06-marc-cucurella-expected-to-start-for-real-madrid-against-inter-after-injury-scare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tribuna<\/a>, citing AS, reported that full-back Marc Cucurella will start against Inter despite feeling some discomfort during the defeat to Real Betis.<\/p>\n<p>The Spain international&#8217;s fitness had sparked concern before Tuesday&#8217;s meeting with Inter. The latest assessment, though, came back positive.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors have diagnosed the discomfort as a minor muscular strain. Nothing serious will keep Cucurella out of the Inter match.<\/p>\n<p>Cucurella looks set to keep his place in Jos\u00e9 Mourinho&#8217;s starting line-up as the team begin their European campaign at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u.<\/p>\n<p>His availability comes as a relief to the Portuguese manager, who is already juggling several defensive absences.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9der Milit\u00e3o, Ra\u00fal Asencio and Rodrygo have all been ruled out of the Inter match. Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni is unlikely to make the matchday squad either, despite returning to group training.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Cucurella&#8217;s outlook is far brighter. The knock he took against Real Betis was not deemed serious, and he should be fit enough to start when Inter visit the Bernab\u00e9u.<\/p>\n<p>You can discuss topics and news in greater depth on the Kooora forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid have received a boost ahead of their eagerly awaited clash with Inter Milan, as Los Blancos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[187,2009,1414,19085,82,83,29491],"class_list":["post-81779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-champions-league","tag-inter","tag-j-mourinho","tag-m-cucurella","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid-vs-inter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}