Barcelona supervisor Hansi Flick was maybe making ready for a soothing worldwide break, permitting him to decompress after an intense run of fixtures within the Copa del Rey, Champions League and La Liga. But he must be again to work far faster than anticipated.
Flick advised the media after their win over Atletico Madrid in extremis that ‘the break is nice for everybody’, and proceeded to provide his gamers, these not on worldwide obligation, 5 days off to disconnect. Nonetheless the failed attraction from the Blaugrana and Osasuna to rearrange the postponed fixture from two weeks in the past signifies that they are going to be in motion on Thursday the twenty seventh of March.
As such, there may be little or no time between the worldwide break and their conflict. Ronald Araujo and Raphinha will end their commitments with Uruguay and Brazil Raphinha with lower than 48 hours to go earlier than the sport kicks off at Montjuic, whereas Osasuna are additionally prone to be with out Cameroon worldwide Enzo Boyomo. Barcelona’s Gerard Martin, Pablo Torre and Fermin Lopez are additionally in motion for Spain’s under-21 facet on Tuesday night time.
Luis de la Fuente (Spain coach): “The Cubarsí factor would not appear severe in any respect, he might be positive for Sunday.” By way of @sport
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In response to Cadena SER although, they might get Araujo again in time for the Osasuna recreation. They are saying that there’s a probability the Uruguayan Soccer Affiliation conform to launch Araujo from their second fixture, an away journey to Bolivia, which might enable him to return to Barcelona earlier and maybe be avaiable. Brazil, who face Argentina in Buenos Aires, understandably don’t have any intention of doing the identical with Raphinha, who performed the total match in an intense 2-1 win over Colombia on Thursday night time.
Uruguay are in motion in opposition to Argentina on Friday night time, however Barcelona are sweating on their defensive choices. Eric Garcia is match and accessible, however Inigo Martinez is recovering from an harm, and there are additionally doubts in regards to the health of Pau Cubarsi too.