OFFICIAL: Barcelona confirm Dani Olmo will be out for 4-5 weeks with an injury

One of the sour notes from Barcelona’s victory over Girona on Sunday was an injury to Dani Olmo, which saw the Spain international forced off with a muscle strain just after the hour-mark. It is more serious than first thought, and will rule him out for up to a month.

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Tests conducted this Monday morning on Dani Olmo have revealed that the FC Barcelona forward has injured his right hamstring. He is expected to be unavailable for the next four to five weeks.

It comes as a blow to the team and player after Olmo had so quickly slotted in his new life at the club and under manager Hansi Flick, scoring in his first three league games, the first time a new player has done that since 2011, and helping the team to maintain what up to now has been a one hundred per cent record in the competition. 

Olmo has a thigh problem, and while it was initially suspected that he would miss just a week or perhaps two at the most, Sport say he will be out for three to four weeks. The likelihood is that he will not return before the October international break, which begins in three weeks’ time.

Barcelona will be without their playmaker for their Champions League debut against AS Monaco, as well as a hard trip to La Ceramica to face an in-form Villarreal. In addition, he is all but ruled out for clashes with Getafe (H), Osasuna (A), Young Boys (H) and Alaves (A). Their next clash after the international break is Sevilla at home on the 20th of October, which Olmo should be fit for, with Bayern Munich and Real Madrid up next after that.