{"id":419222,"date":"2026-01-20T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/419222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:42:09","slug":"why-joao-cancelo-is-not-in-barcelona-squad-to-face-slavia-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/419222\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Joao Cancelo is not in Barcelona squad to face Slavia Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news\/110004\/joao-cancelo-jets-into-barcelona-to-complete-loan-move-from-al-hilal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Cancelo has returned to Barcelona<\/a> on loan for a second stint with the club but is going to have to wait to make his first Champions League appearance for Hansi Flick\u2019s side this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cancelo misses out for the simple reason that he\u2019s not registered for the Champions League with Barca yet. This also means he\u2019ll miss their final group phase game against FC Copenhagen on January 28th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Teams will then have the chance to amend their squads for the second phase of the Champions League, and it\u2019s expected that Cancelo will then be included in Barcelona\u2019s squad list for the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona still have work to do to qualify for the next round of the Champions League but will be expected to beat Slavia Prague who are winless in the competition so far in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Czech team also come into the game without having played competitively for a month due to a winter break<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joao Cancelo has returned to Barcelona on loan for a second stint with the club but is going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1481,4218,403,99],"class_list":["post-419222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-barcelona-uefa-champions-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419222","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=419222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}