{"id":107163,"date":"2026-02-06T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/barrios-low-key-at-atleti-muscle-injury-keeps-him-out-for-7-matches\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:30:11","slug":"barrios-low-key-at-atleti-muscle-injury-keeps-him-out-for-7-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/barrios-low-key-at-atleti-muscle-injury-keeps-him-out-for-7-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrios, low key at Atleti: Muscle injury keeps him out for 7 matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pablo Barrios, significant loss for Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid due to injury<\/h2>\n\nAtl\u00e9tico de Madrid faces a complicated period following the injury of its midfielder, Pablo Barrios. The player will be out of the playing fields for several weeks due to a muscle injury in his right thigh.\n\nThe injury occurred during the Copa del Rey quarter-final match against Real Betis, in which Barrios had to leave the field in the 49th minute.\n\nAccording to medical estimates, Barrios&#8217; recovery time could be approximately one month.\n\nThe red and white &#8216;8&#8217; will undergo physiotherapy sessions and rehabilitation work in the gym, and the evolution of his injury will determine his return to competition.\nOfficial club statement\n\nThis absence means that Barrios will miss several crucial matches, including the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-finals against Barcelona, and is doubtful for the second leg on March 3rd.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two Champions League round of 16 matches against Club Brugge<\/li><li>LaLiga matches against Betis, Rayo Vallecano, Espanyol and Oviedo<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nThe absence of Barrios represents a hard blow for Diego Simeone&#8217;s scheme, as the young midfielder has established himself as a key piece in the midfield.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The best we have in the midfield, absolutely complete.<\/p><cite>Diego Simeone<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFaced with this situation, Simeone will have to look for alternatives to cover Barrios&#8217; position. Among the options are \u00c1lex Baena, Thiago Almada, Rodrigo Mendoza and Obed Vargas, in addition to Koke Resurrecci\u00f3n and Johnny Cardoso, the latter also in the recovery process.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pablo Barrios, significant loss for Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid due to injury Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid faces a complicated period following the injury of its midfielder, Pablo Barrios. The player will be out of the playing fields for several weeks due to a muscle injury in his right thigh. The injury occurred during the Copa del Rey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8585,290,11750,7418],"class_list":{"0":"post-107163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-atletico","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-pablo-barrios","11":"tag-simeone"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}