{"id":522285,"date":"2026-03-08T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:58:07","slug":"why-marc-bernal-was-taken-off-at-half-time-of-barcelonas-win-over-athletic-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522285\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Marc Bernal was taken off at half-time of Barcelona\u2019s win over Athletic Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hansi Flick opted to send on Pedri in his place at half-time, with the scores level at 0-0 after the first half in the Basque Country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/moillorens\/status\/2030408854970761489\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>, the change was not solely a tactical substitution but because Bernal was suffering from stomach problems during the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Flick was quizzed on Bernal afterwards in his post-match press conference and said: \u201cWe had to sub out Marc Bernal due to a precaution. He had some discomfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona will be hoping that Bernal is passed fit to play against Newcastle in midweek in the Champions League last 16 tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hansi Flick opted to send on Pedri in his place at half-time, with the scores level at 0-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1208,1210,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-522285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","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\/522285","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=522285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}