Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso still can’t say whether Kylian Mbappé will be available to play in the next round of the Club World Cup after missing all three group games.

Mbappé was hospitalized last week with acute gastroenteritis and has not played a minute of the tournament so far.

Despite being back in training, he was not even named as a substitute for Thursday’s 3-0 win against RB Salzburg.

“I don’t want to be optimistic and get ahead of myself, but we need him because he’s a top player, one of the best in the world. We hope he’s back soon,” Alonso said when asked about Mbappé’s availability for the round of 16 game against Juventus on Tuesday.

Mbappé is one of the biggest stars at the expanded Club World Cup being staged in the United States and his absence has been a blow to a tournament FIFA president Gianni Infantino wants to become one of the biggest events in the sport.

Infantino managed to get Lionel Messi into the tournament when Inter Miami was granted entry despite not winning the MLS Cup and encouraged teams to try to sign Cristiano Ronaldo during a specially created transfer window before the first game kicked off this month.