{"id":40611,"date":"2025-09-26T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/barcelona-raphinha-and-garcia-injured-yamal-and-balde-ready\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:24:43","slug":"barcelona-raphinha-and-garcia-injured-yamal-and-balde-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/barcelona-raphinha-and-garcia-injured-yamal-and-balde-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona: Raphinha and Garc\u00eda, injured; Yamal and Balde, ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>More bad news for Barcelona: Raphinha and Garc\u00eda join the list of injured<\/h2>\n\nBarcelona faces new setbacks on the injury front, with the absence of Raphinha and Joan Garc\u00eda being confirmed for a considerable time. These absences add to the already known absence of Gavi, who will be out of action for five months, and Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez, who will be out for three weeks due to muscle problems.\n\nRaphinha will be out for three weeks due to a hamstring injury. Meanwhile, goalkeeper Garc\u00eda will be out for up to six weeks due to a meniscus problem in his knee.\n\nThese players will miss Sunday&#8217;s match against Real Sociedad, the Champions League clash against Paris Saint-Germain next Wednesday, and the trip to Seville on October 5th.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0918%2Fr1547535_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Raphinha\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nRaphinha will miss Brazil&#8217;s friendlies against South Korea and Japan.\n\nIn a more positive note, Lamine Yamal and Alejandro Balde trained on Friday and could rejoin the team this weekend against Real Sociedad.\n\nRaphinha suffered the injury in the 3-1 victory over Real Oviedo on Thursday, having to be substituted in the second half.\n\nThe winger will miss Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s next three matches and Brazil&#8217;s friendlies against South Korea and Japan next month. His possible return could be in the LaLiga match against Girona on October 18.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>De la Fuente: No interest in Flick&#8217;s complaints about Yamal<\/li><li>Date of the first Cl\u00e1sico revealed<\/li><li>Tebas: Yamal was only deprived of the Ballon d&#8217;Or due to his age<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nIn the absence of Raphinha, Marcus Rashford, who arrived on loan from Manchester United in the summer, will have an extended opportunity to consolidate his position in the Bar\u00e7a attack.\n\nGarc\u00eda, for his part, is unlikely to be back for the Cl\u00e1sico, with Wojciech Szczesny set to take his place.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Garc\u00eda has suffered a tear of the medial meniscus in his left knee,&#8221; reported Bar\u00e7a on Friday. &#8220;On Saturday, he will undergo an arthroscopic procedure by Dr. Joan Carles Monllau.&#8221;<\/p><cite>FC Barcelona statement<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGarc\u00eda is expected to be out for four to six weeks, depending on his recovery.\n\nMidfielder L\u00f3pez, like Raphinha, could return after the October international break, in time for the trip to Madrid on October 26, but Gavi, in addition to goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen, are long-term absentees.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bad news for Barcelona: Raphinha and Garc\u00eda join the list of injured Barcelona faces new setbacks on the injury front, with the absence of Raphinha and Joan Garc\u00eda being confirmed for a considerable time. These absences add to the already known absence of Gavi, who will be out of action for five months, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,6682,355,932],"class_list":{"0":"post-40611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-barcelona","8":"tag-gavi","9":"tag-injuries","10":"tag-raphinha"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40611","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=40611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}