{"id":1394,"date":"2026-09-05T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:51:23","slug":"luis-rioja-ruled-out-of-valencia-v-barcelona-at-mestalla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"Luis Rioja ruled out of Valencia v Barcelona at Mestalla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/valencia-143\">Valencia<\/a> will be without <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/luis-rioja-222832\">Luis Rioja<\/a> for Sunday\u2019s meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">Barcelona<\/a> at Mestalla, the winger ruled out after missing the final training session.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to Superdeporte, the Andalusian winger has been dealing with physical discomfort throughout the week and has not trained normally, with his absence from the final session confirming he will not feature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The setback is significant given Rioja started Valencia\u2019s last match, against Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a, indicating he had moved into the manager\u2019s plans for the opening rounds of <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">LaLiga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There was better news as Pablo Maffeo and Kayne Van Oevelen trained with the group and, unless there is a late setback, will be available for the Barcelona game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Valencia must now find an alternative on the flank where Rioja has been prominent as they prepare for one of their toughest early-season fixtures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cArtificial intelligence was used to assist in creating this article based on reporting from the original source quoted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/luis-rioja-ruled-out-of-valencia-v-barcelona-at-mestalla-43406735\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia will be without Luis Rioja for Sunday\u2019s meeting with Barcelona at Mestalla, the winger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434067353Fdate2026-09-05.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}