{"id":110299,"date":"2026-02-26T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/frenkie-de-jong-injured-out-for-6-weeks-impacts-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:06:58","slug":"frenkie-de-jong-injured-out-for-6-weeks-impacts-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/frenkie-de-jong-injured-out-for-6-weeks-impacts-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenkie de Jong, injured: Out for 6 weeks, impacts Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Frenkie de Jong, out due to injury at Barcelona<\/h2>\n\nFC Barcelona has confirmed a new significant absence in its ranks. Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong is suffering an injury to the distal biceps of his right leg, after re-injuring it during training this Thursday.\n\nThe Blaugrana club estimates a recovery time of between five and six weeks, a hard blow for the team led by Hansi Flick at a crucial moment of the season.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matches De Jong will miss<\/h2>\n\n\nThe injury will prevent De Jong from participating in at least seven official matches, including important commitments:\n\nThe Copa del Rey semi-final second leg against Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Midfield Adjustment<\/h2>\n\n\nDe Jong&#8217;s absence will force Flick to reconfigure his midfield, where the Dutchman was a key piece alongside Pedri in creating plays. With Pedri already recovered, the German coach will have to look for alternatives such as Marc Bernal, Eric Garc\u00eda or Marc Casad\u00f3 to reinforce the double pivot.\n\nThe technical staff is also awaiting the recovery of Gavi and Danish defender Andreas Christensen, which worsens the situation in the team&#8217;s planning.\n\nThis is De Jong&#8217;s second injury this season, as he suffered a muscle problem with the Netherlands national team in September.\n\nThe Barcelona medical staff will be evaluating the player&#8217;s progress in the coming weeks, with the hope that he can rejoin the team in the final stretch of the season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frenkie de Jong, out due to injury at Barcelona FC Barcelona has confirmed a new significant absence in its ranks. Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong is suffering an injury to the distal biceps of his right leg, after re-injuring it during training this Thursday. The Blaugrana club estimates a recovery time of between five and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[156,2123,6634,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-110299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-frenkie-de-jong","11":"tag-injury"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110299","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=110299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}