March 31st

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SPANISH LEAGUE: Position in the league: 2

WORLD CUP: Portugal (Group D)

SITE LAST UPDATED: 20/04/02

Real's Figo to miss Bayern clash

MADRID, March 31 (Reuters) - Real Madrid midfielder Luis Figo will miss Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg against Bayern Munich after club doctors decided to give him more time to recover from an ankle injury.

 
Luis Figo
Luis Figo: Missing for Madrid
(Photography/Allsport)
'Figo is training hard on his own, but he is not yet 100 percent,' club doctor Juan Carlos Hernandez said on Sunday.

'He still has some pain and to avoid any risk of a recurrence of the injury he is not going to join the rest of the team for the game in Germany.'

The Portuguese international damaged ligaments in his right ankle in the 1-0 win over Porto in the Champions League second group phase on February 19.

Although he had not fully recovered Figo played in the King's Cup final against Deportivo Coruna on March 6, but was unable to complete the game, which Real lost 2-1.

He went on to miss Portugal's World Cup warm-up against Finland last week, which ended in a surprise 4-1 home defeat for Antonio Oliveira's side.

The good news for Real Madrid is that Zinedine Zidane and Santiago Solari have both been included in the squad for the Bayern match despite picking up minor injuries during Saturday's 1-0 victory over Sevilla.

Source: ESPN.com