La Liga giants Barcelona, which has been plagued by injuy crisis recently, confirmed on its official website on Monday that the club's two Dutch internationals, Frenkie de Jong and Memphis Depay, were confirmed to be injured with elongation of the semitendinosus muscle to left thigh and biceps femoris muscle injury to left thigh left thigh respectively. .

According to Barcelona's statement, both of them were confirmed to have suffered serious injuries after an assessment on Monday, and they will be temporarily out of selection while recovering from their injuries. The club could also not confirm their return dates yet at this moment.

In addition, according to the report from Spanish outlet AS, the two are expected to be out of action for at least a month, but the report did not rule out the possibility of De Jong recovering and coming back in time to face Real Madrid in the El Classico on the Matchday 9 of La Liga on October 16.

It's all the fault of the international fixtures

Barcelona has certainly been affected by the "curse" of the infamous "FIFA virus", where many players who have been recalled to their national team would unfortunately injured seriously during the international break. 

A few days ago, Ronald Araujo and Jules Koundé were both inadvertently injured while playing for Uruguay and France in friendly and UEFA Nations League matches respectively.

Last Thursday, Frenkie de Jong and Depay were seriously injured in Netherlands' Nations League Group stage match against Poland, causing the Blaugrana who will face Inter Milan in the next round of the Champions League having the dilemma when it comes to player selection.