{"id":327562,"date":"2026-05-01T20:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=327562"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:00:29","slug":"diego-simeone-issues-julian-alvarez-injury-update-ahead-of-arsenal-match-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/diego-simeone-issues-julian-alvarez-injury-update-ahead-of-arsenal-match-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Simeone issues Julian Alvarez injury update ahead of Arsenal match | 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 (NurPhoto\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Diego Simeone admits Julian Alvarez remains to be fighting his ankle injury ahead of Atletico Madrid\u2019s Champions League semi-final second leg against Arsenal next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez scored a penalty within the second half of Atletico\u2019s 1-1 draw with Arsenal on Wednesday night but was forced off with 13 minutes remaining after injuring his ankle in a challenge from\u00a0Eberechi Eze.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico travel to Valencia for his or her game in La Liga on Saturday and Simeone has revealed that Alvarez will play no part within the fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Simeone can also be without his son Giuliano, Alexander Sorloth, Jose Gimenez and Pablo Barrios.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If there hadn\u2019t been a match on Tuesday, Julian probably wouldn\u2019t have made it to Saturday either, nor would Sorloth, Giuliano, Barrios or Gimenez,\u2019 Simeone said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s greater than clear that we\u2019re going to go together with those that are in the most effective shape to compete tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The players\u2019 form dictates it [the squad rotation]. We\u2019re going to field fresh legs so we are able to compete, which is what matters to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I expect so much from them. They&#8217;ve the responsibility of being at Atletico Madrid and the chance to point out why they\u2019re at Atletico Madrid.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Atletico\u2019s draw with Arsenal, Simeone said that he expected Alvarez, Giuliano Simeone and Sorloth to get well for the second leg against Mikel Arteta\u2019s side next week.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico currently sit fourth in La Liga, five points behind third-placed Villarreal with five games remaining.<\/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: Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber injury update ahead of Arsenal vs Fulham<\/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: Alan Shearer\u2019s Premier League predictions including Man Utd vs Liverpool<\/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: Paul Merson makes remarkable Arsenal title claim ahead of Fulham clash<\/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 (NurPhoto\/Shutterstock) Diego Simeone admits Julian Alvarez remains to be fighting his ankle injury ahead of Atletico Madrid\u2019s Champions League semi-final second leg against Arsenal next Tuesday. Alvarez scored a penalty within the second half of Atletico\u2019s 1-1 draw with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[1127,8116,2605,11312,5479,667,3457,24499,2064,24463,581],"class_list":["post-327562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ahead","tag-alvarez","tag-arsenal","tag-diego","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-issues","tag-julian","tag-match","tag-simeone","tag-update"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! 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