{"id":110560,"date":"2026-02-28T04:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/de-jong-crucial-blow-muscle-injury-leaves-barca-without-their-star-for-5-6-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:59:29","slug":"de-jong-crucial-blow-muscle-injury-leaves-barca-without-their-star-for-5-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/de-jong-crucial-blow-muscle-injury-leaves-barca-without-their-star-for-5-6-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"De Jong, crucial blow: Muscle injury leaves Bar\u00e7a without their star for 5-6 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Frenkie de Jong, out due to injury: A hard blow for Barcelona<\/h2>\n\nFC Barcelona has confirmed a significant absence in its squad. Frenkie de Jong, Dutch midfielder, suffers an injury to the distal biceps of the right leg. The injury occurred during Thursday&#8217;s training, according to the club.\n\nThe estimated recovery time for De Jong ranges from five to six weeks. This injury represents a significant setback for the team led by coach Hansi Flick, especially at a crucial moment in the season.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matches De Jong will miss<\/h2>\n\n\nThe absence of the international Dutchman will prevent him from participating in at least seven official commitments. Among them are:\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 adjustments in Barcelona&#8217;s midfield, where he has been a key player alongside Pedri in creating plays. With Pedri already recovered, coach Flick will have to look for alternatives to reinforce the double pivot.\n\nThe club also has Gavi and Danish defender Andreas Christensen in the recovery process, which adds more challenges to the coach&#8217;s planning.\n\nThis is the second injury De Jong has suffered during the season, as he also suffered a muscle injury with the Netherlands national team in September.\n\nThe club&#8217;s medical staff will continue to assess 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: A hard blow for Barcelona FC Barcelona has confirmed a significant absence in its squad. Frenkie de Jong, Dutch midfielder, suffers an injury to the distal biceps of the right leg. The injury occurred during Thursday&#8217;s training, according to the club. The estimated recovery time for De Jong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[156,2123,6634,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-110560","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\/110560","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=110560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}