{"id":6978,"date":"2022-04-14T06:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T06:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6978"},"modified":"2022-04-14T06:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T06:40:26","slug":"pique-doubtful-ahead-of-barcas-clash-against-eintracht-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6978","title":{"rendered":"Piqu\u00e9 Doubtful Ahead Of Bar\u00e7a\u2019s Clash Against Eintracht Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">FC Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez is not sure whether defender Gerard Piqu\u00e9 would be available for Thursday\u2019s game against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League quarter-finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe wants to be there and shows commitment. We will see if it is enough. If he\u2019s not 100 per cent fit, he won\u2019t play,\u201d Xavi told a news conference on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Piqu\u00e9 played the first leg, but left the pitch early in the match due to an adductor injury and missed FC Barcelona\u2019s league game against Levante at the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The defender, however, took part in the training session on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHopefully he can play. It\u2019s clear how important he is for us,\u201d teammate Eric Garcia said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following the 1-1 draw in the first leg, Xavi sees his team under pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe all know this club very well. It is the most demanding club. We have a duty to win and play well,\u201d the coach said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When asked, Xavi avoided making any comments about the rumours that Bayern Munich\u2019s top goalscorer Robert Lewandowski was set for a move to FC Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI understand the question, but this is not the time. It is time to focus on tomorrow\u2019s (Thursday\u2019s) game and not on transfers. He is a great player. I can\u2019t say more about it,\u201d Xavi stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">NAN<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez is not sure whether defender Gerard Piqu\u00e9 would be available for Thursday\u2019s game against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League quarter-finals. \u201cHe wants to be there and shows commitment. We will see if it is enough. If he\u2019s not 100 per cent fit, he won\u2019t play,\u201d Xavi told a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[715,4164,363,4163,4165],"class_list":["post-6978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-barca","tag-eintracht-frankfurt","tag-europa-league","tag-gerard-pique","tag-quarter-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6980,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions\/6980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}