{"id":896615,"date":"2026-09-15T11:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896615\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:54:20","slug":"gabriel-jesus-on-whether-he-or-raphinha-should-start-as-barcelonas-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896615\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Jesus on whether he or Raphinha should start as Barcelona\u2019s striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the moment, his fellow Brazilian, Raphinha, has been the team\u2019s starting striker. Raphinha, a winger usually, has excelled in the role after Barcelona let Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres leave in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bar\u00e7a pursued Juli\u00e1n Alvarez throughout the transfer window, but Atl\u00e9tico Madrid did not budge in efforts to sign the player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jesus has been affected by injuries over the last few years. Most observers peg him as a backup option for Barcelona, at least at first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Recently, the forward was asked whether he saw himself as a starter or Raphinha in his place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cRapha is doing really well as a number nine; he has great ability to play there\u2014he\u2019s proving it and scoring goals, which is the main thing. I also know that the season is very long and that I\u2019ll have opportunities to play,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the moment, there\u2019s no suggestion Raphinha would stop starting as a striker. He\u2019s in red-hot form, banging in goals. But with Barcelona playing multiple games across different competitions, Jesus will likely have chances to start in addition to substitute appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In addition, Raphinha could return to his place on the wing with Jesus starting the #9 position. However, that is unlikely at the moment as well, as Bar\u00e7a is well-stocked in the winger department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the moment, his fellow Brazilian, Raphinha, has been the team\u2019s starting striker. Raphinha, a winger usually, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1208,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-896615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896615","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=896615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}