{"id":326826,"date":"2026-04-30T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=326826"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:34:29","slug":"atletico-madrid-update-on-julian-alvarez-injury-blow-after-arsenal-draw-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/atletico-madrid-update-on-julian-alvarez-injury-blow-after-arsenal-draw-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid update on Julian Alvarez injury blow after Arsenal draw | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>Julian Alvarez was forced off with an ankle injury in Atletico Madrid\u2019s 1-1 draw with Arsenal (EPA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Diego Simeone believes Julian Alvarez will likely be fit to start out the second leg of Atletico Madrid\u2019s Champions League semi-final against Arsenal next week.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez\u2019s penalty earned Atletico a 1-1 draw against Mikel Arteta\u2019s side in the primary leg on Wednesday night after Viktor Gyokeres\u2019 first-half spot kick put the Gunners in front.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the Argentina international was forced off with 13 minutes remaining after injuring his ankle in a challenge from Eberechi Eze.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez was clearly in pain as he left the pitch was seen walking on the pitch after the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico can even have concerns over Giuliano Simeone and Alexander Sorloth as additionally they picked up injuries throughout the game.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_295160777-d369.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28172684\" alt=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \" live=\"\" services.=\"\" online=\"\" in-match=\"\" use=\"\" limited=\"\" to=\"\" images=\"\" no=\"\" video=\"\" emulation.=\"\" in=\"\" betting=\"\" games=\"\" or=\"\" single=\"\" club=\"\" publications.=\"\" mandatory=\"\" credit:=\"\" photo=\"\" by=\"\" bagu=\"\" blanco=\"\" eberechi=\"\" eze=\"\" of=\"\" arsenal=\"\" fc=\"\" and=\"\" julian=\"\" alvarez=\"\" atletico=\"\" de=\"\" madrid=\"\" during=\"\" the=\"\" uefa=\"\" champions=\"\" league=\"\" match=\"\" semi-finals=\"\" firstd=\"\" leg=\"\" between=\"\" played=\"\" at=\"\" riyadh=\"\" metropolitano=\"\" stadium=\"\" on=\"\" april=\"\" madrid.=\"\" pressinphoto=\"\" v=\"\" semi=\"\" final=\"\" first=\"\" football=\"\" air=\"\" spain=\"\" apr=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Julian Alvarez injured his ankle during a challenge with Eberechi Eze (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked for an update on Alvarez, Giuliano Simeone and Sorloth, Diego Simeone said: \u2018Well, knowing them, they\u2019ll definitely be there on Tuesday,<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t think there will likely be anyone that is not going to be playing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I suppose they is likely to be feeling some physical discomfort now. Giuliano from a knock, Julian from the autumn he had in the midst of the pitch and Sorloth with a hamstring strain, but I actually have little doubt they\u2019ll be there.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Atletico are as a result of play Valencia in La Liga on Saturday before the second leg of their Champions League semi-final against Arsenal next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the newest news on <meta charset=\"utf-8\"><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sportmetro\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/metrosportuk\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Diego Simeone clashes with Ben White during Arsenal draw with Atletico Madrid<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Arsenal unhappy with grass on Atletico Madrid pitch before Champions League match<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Atletico Madrid 1-1 Arsenal: Gunners held in first leg after VAR penalty controversy<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Alvarez was forced off with an ankle injury in Atletico Madrid\u2019s 1-1 draw with Arsenal (EPA) Diego Simeone believes Julian Alvarez will likely be fit to start out the second leg of Atletico Madrid\u2019s Champions League semi-final against Arsenal next week. Alvarez\u2019s penalty earned Atletico a 1-1 draw against Mikel Arteta\u2019s side in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[8116,2605,15249,5251,2873,5479,667,24499,3166,581],"class_list":["post-326826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-alvarez","tag-arsenal","tag-atletico","tag-blow","tag-draw","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-julian","tag-madrid","tag-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326829,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326826\/revisions\/326829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}