Barca duo Raphinha, Joan Garcia injured, out for PSG clash

Barcelona suffered a treble wounded stroke connected Friday with winger Raphinha and goalkeeper Joan Garcia ruled retired of upcoming matches including adjacent week’s Champions League clash against Paris Saint-Germain.

Brazil planetary Raphinha is acceptable to miss 3 weeks with a hamstring wounded sustained successful the Spanish champions’ 3-1 triumph astatine Real Oviedo connected Thursday successful La Liga, Barcelona said successful a statement.

Spanish stopper Garcia, meanwhile, suffered a meniscus wounded successful his near genu and the nine said helium volition miss “between 4 and six weeks”.

Garcia is acceptable to beryllium replaced successful extremity by Polish seasoned Wojciech Szczesny, with Marc-Andre ter Stegen besides recovering from a backmost operation.

Raphinha should instrumentality for Barcelona’s clash against rivals Real Madrid connected October 26, but Garcia volition lone beryllium capable to instrumentality if his wounded heals connected the quicker extremity of the expected betterment schedule.

Barcelona are acceptable to person winger Lamine Yamal backmost for Sunday’s league crippled against Real Sociedad pursuing a groin injury.

“Hey! I’m back,” wrote the teenage prima successful a station connected Instagram, alluding to his instrumentality to enactment aft missing the team’s past 4 games.

Barcelona way La Liga leaders Real Madrid by 2 points and opened their Champions League run with a 2-1 triumph astatine Newcastle.

AFP

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