{"id":583305,"date":"2026-04-03T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:36:08","slug":"barcelona-welcome-back-their-star-player-against-atletico-and-three-players-feel-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583305\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona welcome back their star player against Atl\u00e9tico&#8230; and three players feel under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:right\">Barcelona will welcome back one of their key players when they visit Atl\u00e9tico Madrid tomorrow, Saturday, at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, in their La Liga matchday 30 fixture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">According to the Catalan newspaper Sport, Spanish defender Eric Garc\u00eda will return to the starting line-up against Atl\u00e9tico after recovering from injury, although it has not yet been decided which position he will occupy: right-back or centre-back.<\/p>\n<p>Read also<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Final ruling&#8230; German court settles case over Al-Ghazi\u2019s posts on Gaza<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kooora.com\/%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85\/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1\/%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%85-%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9--%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%85-%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%B7%D9%8A-%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87\/bltc64e0dcdae4bc006\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" target=\"_blank\">Despite the Bosnian disaster&#8230; Barcelona remain determined and Bastoni gives his response<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Europe and racism: England leads the way in tackling the issue&#8230; while Yamal suffers from Vin\u00edcius\u2019s weakness<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">The newspaper reported that Eric Garcia\u2019s inclusion in the starting line-up will be at the expense of one of three players in contention to be dropped: Ronald Ara\u00fajo, Gerard Mart\u00edn and Jo\u00e3o Cancelo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Conversely, &#8220;Sport&#8221; confirmed that youngster Pau Cubarsi remains an untouchable fixture in the Catalan side\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Bar\u00e7a top the La Liga table with 73 points, four points clear of their rivals Real Madrid, who sit second and are set to visit Real Mallorca tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona will welcome back one of their key players when they visit Atl\u00e9tico Madrid tomorrow, Saturday, at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[10972,64,63,937,285679,22706,6257,285678,596,179515,41288,41238,22455,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-583305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-barcelona","12":"tag-barcelona-vs-atletico-madrid","13":"tag-bayern-munich","14":"tag-champions-league","15":"tag-e-garcia","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-h-flick","18":"tag-laliga","19":"tag-mallorca","20":"tag-real-madrid","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}