{"id":35050,"date":"2025-09-16T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alvarez-atletico-madrids-low-key-player-against-liverpool-in-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:37:14","slug":"alvarez-atletico-madrids-low-key-player-against-liverpool-in-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/alvarez-atletico-madrids-low-key-player-against-liverpool-in-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1lvarez, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid&#8217;s low key player against Liverpool in Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"Star striker Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez was ruled out of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid&#8217;s trip to Anfield to face Liverpool in the Champions League.\n\nA club source reported that the 25-year-old player is experiencing discomfort, without offering further details.\n\n\u00c1lvarez was substituted at halftime during Atl\u00e9tico&#8217;s 2-0 victory over Villarreal in LaLiga on Saturday, after assisting Pablo Barrios to open the scoring. He was replaced by Alexander S\u00f8rloth.\n\nAmerican midfielder Johnny Cardoso was also excluded from the squad for the match against Liverpool. Atl\u00e9tico will also be unable to count on two of their star signings of the summer, \u00c1lex Baena and Thiago Almada.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0828%2Fr1537753_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez durante el partido del Atl\u00e9tico contra el Villarreal\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez se lesion\u00f3 durante la victoria del Atl\u00e9tico sobre el Villarreal el fin de semana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\u00c1lvarez has been a key player for Atl\u00e9tico since he arrived from Manchester City in 2024, scoring 17 goals in LaLiga last season, as well as seven in ten Champions League appearances.\n\nIn the absence of \u00c1lvarez, coach Diego Simeone has S\u00f8rloth, Antoine Griezmann, and Giacomo Raspadori as experienced offensive options available at Anfield, as well as winger Nico Gonz\u00e1lez.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star striker Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez was ruled out of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid&#8217;s trip to Anfield to face Liverpool in the Champions League. A club source reported that the 25-year-old player is experiencing discomfort, without offering further details. \u00c1lvarez was substituted at halftime during Atl\u00e9tico&#8217;s 2-0 victory over Villarreal in LaLiga on Saturday, after assisting Pablo Barrios to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2704,270,3512,138],"class_list":{"0":"post-35050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-julian-alvarez","11":"tag-liverpool"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050","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=35050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}