{"id":178686,"date":"2025-09-24T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178686\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:09:08","slug":"key-barcelona-duo-expected-to-receive-medical-green-light-for-real-sociedad-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178686\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Barcelona duo expected to receive medical green light for Real Sociedad clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona take on Real Oviedo on Thursday in the midweek La Liga fixture, hoping to maintain their winning momentum.<\/p>\n<p>The Blaugrana, however, go into the game without some key players in Gavi, Alejandro Balde, and Lamine Yamal, missing due to injury issues.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While Gavi is a long-term absentee, like captain Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Balde and Lamine are understood to be close to returning.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Balde to receive medical discharge for Sociedad clash<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/balde-casi-a-punto-n\/?ssm=TW_CC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:AS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">AS<\/a>, Balde is expected to receive his medical discharge for Sunday\u2019s La Liga clash against Real Sociedad at Montjuic.<\/p>\n<p>The La Masia graduate has missed the last three matches due to a thigh injury he picked up during training earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"654\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/963b0c756fcf5c0a7fdd4632759804c8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Likely to return at the weekend. (Photo by Alex Caparros\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Balde trained with the group for the second consecutive day today, but Hansi Flick already confirmed that a <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/flick-talks-lamine-gavi-pedri-de-jong-balde-bernal-ahead-of-real-oviedo-vs-barcelona\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:return for tomorrow\u2019s game is ruled out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">return for tomorrow\u2019s game is ruled out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>All indications suggest that the young full-back, who has become a key player for the manager, will be available on Sunday against Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n<p>Lamine also set to return vs La Real<\/p>\n<p>Flick is also awaiting the recovery of Lamine Yamal, who has already been working on the pitch for a few days, although still on his own.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old sensation is out due to pubic discomfort but has resumed ball work in recent days, which is a <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/injured-barcelona-superstar-takes-step-forward-in-his-recovery-could-return-to-squad-vs-real-sociedad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:step in the right direction;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">step in the right direction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In principle, and provided there are no setbacks, he is expected to play a few minutes on Sunday against Real Sociedad, with an eye on recovering his rhythm for next week\u2019s match against PSG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona take on Real Oviedo on Thursday in the midweek La Liga fixture, hoping to maintain their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[106169,418,4893,413,106171,24371,96556,106172,106170,827,106168,106167,403,99],"class_list":["post-178686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alejandro-balde","tag-barcelona","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-gavi","tag-hansi-flick","tag-la-liga","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-marc-andre-ter-stegen","tag-medical-discharge","tag-psg","tag-real-oviedo","tag-real-sociedad","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}