{"id":23206,"date":"2026-02-02T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/barcelonas-raphinha-out-for-a-week-with-leg-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:03","slug":"barcelonas-raphinha-out-for-a-week-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/barcelonas-raphinha-out-for-a-week-with-leg-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona&#8217;s Raphinha out for a week with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The 29-year-old, who has scored eight goals and provided three assists this season, was ruled out for nearly two months after suffering a hamstring injury in September.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8220;Raphinha is suffering from an overload in the adductor muscle of his right leg his recovery period is expected to be one week,&#8221; Barcelona said in a statement, adding that he will miss Tuesday&#8217;s Copa del Rey quarter-final at Albacete.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Leaders Barcelona, bidding for their third LaLiga title in four years, are a point above Real Madrid in the standings.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23207,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23206","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Barcelona forward Raphinha has been sidelined for a week with a right leg injury, the LaLiga champions said on Monday, after the Brazilian was forced off at halftime during Saturday's 3-1 win at Elche","published_date":"2026-02-02 00:00:00","news_description":"Barcelona forward Raphinha has been sidelined for a week with a right leg injury, the LaLiga champions said on Monday, after the Brazilian was forced off at halftime during Saturday's 3-1 win at Elche","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26246,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23206\/revisions\/26246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}