BARCELONA – Frenkie de Jong suffers an injury in the soleus of his right leg and will miss the next four games of FC Barcelona, after the tests that were carried out to check the state of the overload that left him out of the call of the party in Seville unveiled this new ailment, much more serious and that will remove him from the stage for at least two weeks, a period that “will depend on the extent of the break,” a medical source told ESPN Deportes.
This would be the most optimistic period foreseen in the Barça club, where there is fear that the breakage would take him off the stage, even until the end of the league season, not being available until the return of the Champions League, in the month of August.
The loss of De Jong joins that of Sergi Roberto, who, like him, will not be able to play on Tuesday against Athletic Bilbao and whose recovery is expected in the face of next Saturday’s match at Balaídos against Celta.
The situation is aggravated in the center of the field, howling because these two losses are compounded by the threat of sanction weighing on Sergio Busquets and Arturo Vidal, who are one card from the suspension.
After enjoying the Barça squad for a party on Saturday, the Dutch midfielder did not train on Sunday under Quique Setién and his absence on the pitch was followed by an official statement from the club in which he realized that “he has been detected an injury to the soleus ”, reporting his absence and not giving a recovery period, as usual, with a simple“ evolution will determine availability ”.
De Jong will not be available for matches against Athletic, Celta, Atlético and Villarreal in this way, estimating that he could be back in the derby against Espanyol on matchday 35, on July 8 and already in the final stretch of the championship .
PROBLEM
The loss of the Dutch midfielder is understood to be of great magnitude for the Barça team, at the peak of LaLiga and after having been a key player throughout the season. If he did not miss a game with Valverde and was a substitute only three times (Villarreal and Alavés in the League and Inter in the Champions), since the arrival of Setién and until the stoppage due to the coronavirus he was only absent in the coach’s debut against Granada , by sanction, and was a substitute against Eibar.
The problems came after the resumption of the League. Starting in Mallorca, De Jong left the field with discomfort in the final stretch of the match and already stayed, as a precaution, on the bench against Leganés, not traveling to Seville due to, officially, an overload in the twin and giving way to more tests in which this injury was finally detected in the soleus.
The absence of the Dutchman joins that of Sergi Roberto, who suffers from a rib fissure that no longer allowed him to finish the match against Leganés, left him out of the game for Sevilla and will not have him in a position to play on Tuesday, awaiting his reappearance. the following Saturday in Vigo.
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