{"id":519295,"date":"2026-10-29T08:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=519295"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:28:40","slug":"flick-worries-as-key-player-will-miss-alaves-game","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/flick-worries-as-key-player-will-miss-alaves-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Flick worries as key player will miss Alaves game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catalan side will be unable to count on another key footballer against Deportivo Alav\u00e9s at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After a series of defensive injuries for Barca, they now have another, with Marc Casad\u00f3 confirmed out for almost 2 months.<\/p>\n<p>The mood was optimistic for the LaLiga defending champions at the beginning of the week about Jules Kound\u00e9&#8217;s return. However, that changed quickly as the French defender is not ready to play and will miss the upcoming match in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Jules missed both of Barca\u2019s losses against PSG in the UCL and Real Madrid in the league due to the injury.<\/p>\n<p>With Eric Garc\u00eda, Andreas Christensen and Casad\u00f3 out, the French player\u2019s fitness mattered to the manager. However, Hansi Flick must play his next match with only Jo\u00e3o Cancelo, Pau Cubars\u00ed, Gerard Mart\u00edn and Alejandro Balde available on defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jules Kound\u00e9 has been RULED OUT of Saturday&#8217;s match against Alav\u00e9s. His left ankle sprain has not improved sufficiently, and the club decided not to risk aggravating the injury. @ffpolo |  MD https:\/\/t.co\/awJQGhQfCj<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; total Bar\u00e7a (@totalBarca) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/totalBarca\/status\/2115777097700646954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catalan side will be unable to count on another key footballer against Deportivo Alav\u00e9s at the weekend. After a series of defensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":519296,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,27199],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17560,27200],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The injury crisis in Barcelona deepens after another blow.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519297,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519295\/revisions\/519297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519295"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=519295"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=519295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}