{"id":898,"date":"2025-04-15T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:41:10","slug":"barcelona-confirm-defender-balde-sidelined-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/barcelona-confirm-defender-balde-sidelined-with-hamstring-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona confirm defender Balde sidelined with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-11.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-11-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-11-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona confirmed on Sunday that defender Alejandro Balde has suffered a hamstring injury, which will keep him sidelined for the crucial clashes against Dortmund in the Champions League and Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona managed to seal a narrow but vital victory at Leganes to extend their lead at the top of the Liga standings to seven points. However, they left the Municipal de Butarque with a piece of bad news as Alejandro Balde was forced off with an injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Balde is not so good\u2026 I will say nothing and we will wait until tomorrow,&#8221; head coach Hansi Flick told reporters after the game. Medical scans carried out on Sunday morning confirmed the blow for the Catalan giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Tests carried out on Sunday morning on the first team player Alejandro Balde confirm that he has a distal injury to his left hamstring. His return to action with the first team will depend on his recovery,&#8221; reads a statement from Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, Balde will be ruled out for the second leg for Barca&#8217;s Champions League quarter-final tie against Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday, and the Copa del Rey final against Real Madrid on April 26. The &#8216;Blaugrana&#8217; visit the Signal Iduna Park with a 4-0 advantage gained in the first leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/leganes\/barcelona\/20256604\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona confirmed on Sunday that defender Alejandro B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}