{"id":959,"date":"2025-09-09T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:57:22","slug":"barcelona-midfielder-frenkie-de-jong-sidelined-with-muscle-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/barcelona-midfielder-frenkie-de-jong-sidelined-with-muscle-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong sidelined with muscle problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-16.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-16-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-16-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona have confirmed that midfielder Frenkie de Jong has sustained a muscle injury, raising uncertainty over his short-term availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona have officially disclosed that Frenkie de Jong has suffered a minor muscle injury. The club released a statement via social media outlining the nature of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The player was on international duty with the Netherlands when he suffered the injury in the match against Poland and had to withdraw from the squad, missing the Oranjes&#8217; World Cup qualifier against Lithuania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the announcement, &#8220;The player Frenkie de Jong has suffered a slight injury to the external obturator muscle in his right leg. His recovery will determine his availability.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dutch international\u2019s condition will be monitored closely in the coming days. At present, no specific timeline has been provided for his return to training or competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This setback comes early in the season, as the injury could keep him out of the starting line-up in the future. The absence of a key midfielder could pose difficulties for the team in upcoming fixtures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have confirmed that midfielder Frenkie de Jong has sustained a muscle injury, raising uncertainty over his short-term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}