{"id":308473,"date":"2025-11-23T06:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308473\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:42:18","slug":"barcelona-handed-good-news-on-alejandro-balde-ahead-of-chelsea-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308473\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona handed good news on Alejandro Balde ahead of Chelsea clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The left-back did not appear for the second half after taking a blow to the head in the opening 45 minutes, but Flick said after the game that Balde is well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s fine. We simply made the change as a precaution because the incident occurred just a few minutes before halftime,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Diario AS reporter Javi Miguel has also posted on X: \u201cTranquility with Balde. Didn\u2019t come out for second half as a precaution due to feeling a bit dizzy. OK for London.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona will hope that Balde will be fit for the midweek trip to Chelsea to take on Stamford Bridge in an exciting Champions League tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blues were also in action on Saturday in the Premier League, beating Burnley 2-0 thanks to goals from Pedro Neto and Enzo Fernandez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The left-back did not appear for the second half after taking a blow to the head in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1480,4218,403,99],"class_list":["post-308473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-uefa-champions-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308473","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=308473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}