{"id":115724,"date":"2019-05-10T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115724"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:37:19","slug":"champions-league-suarez-misses-barcelonas-copa-del-rey-final-against-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115724","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Suarez misses Barcelona\u2019s Copa del Rey final against Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Liverpool-vs-Barcelona-Suarez-speaks-on-celebrating-if-he-scores-at-Anfield.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona have confirmed that striker, Luis Suarez will miss the club\u2019s Copa del Rey final against Valencia on 25 May in Seville due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The La Liga Champions stated this in a statement through the club\u2019s official website on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming after Barcelona\u2019s shocking Champions League exit at Liverpool on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez will also miss Barcelona\u2019s La Liga fixtures against Getafe and Eibar.<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguay international has undergone surgery on a medial meniscus injury in his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cThe first team player Luis Su\u00e1rez has a medial meniscus injury in his right knee and has been operated on by Dr.Cugat, undergoing arthroscopic surgery under the supervision of the Club\u2019s medical staff. The Uruguayan will be out for around four to six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs such, the FC Barcelona striker will miss the three remaining fixtures this season, the league games against Getafe and Eibar and the Copa del Rey final against Valencia on 25 May in Seville.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have confirmed that striker, Luis Suarez will miss the club\u2019s Copa del Rey final against Valencia on 25 May in Seville due to injury. The La Liga Champions stated this in a statement through the club\u2019s official website on Thursday evening. This is coming after Barcelona\u2019s shocking Champions League exit at Liverpool on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,11822],"class_list":["post-115724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-luiz-suarez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}