{"id":142010,"date":"2025-09-13T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142010\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:41:07","slug":"marc-bernal-is-back-hansi-flick-offers-update-on-barcelona-midfielder-and-frenkie-de-jong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142010\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Bernal is back! Hansi Flick offers update on Barcelona midfielder and Frenkie de Jong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Great news for Barcelona fans: the long-awaited return of Marc Bernal is here as the young midfielder has received the medical green light after missing a full calendar year following surgery on an ACL tear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hansi Flick confirmed Bernal\u2019s return to the squad in a press conference on Saturday ahead of the La Liga match against Valencia, but there is a bit of bad news as Frenkie de Jong will not be available as he recovers from a glute issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cDe Jong won\u2019t be back tomorrow, but Marc will. He won\u2019t be in the starting lineup. His next step in returning is to get better and better prepared. Tomorrow there will be all the excitement of being back with the team, and we have to manage that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Flick made it clear there will be zero rush with Bernal\u2019s return and he\u2019ll play very few minutes as he rebuilds his match fitness, but just the fact we\u2019ll get to see one of the best midfield prospects Bar\u00e7a have produced in recent years back on the pitch is fantastic news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great news for Barcelona fans: the long-awaited return of Marc Bernal is here as the young midfielder has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1210,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-142010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}