Ankle injury to sideline Barca's de Jong for rest of season
MADRID, April 22 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona will be without midfielder Frenkie de Jong for the rest of the season after the Dutch midfielder suffered a badly twisted ankle in Sunday's 3-2 defeat to Real Madrid.
De Jong was carried off the pitch at the Santiago Bernabeu in obvious pain after a challenge with Real Madrid's Federico Valverde.
Both players went for a 50-50 ball in the closing moments of the fir