Barcelona are well-placed to achieve the Champions League semi-finals after their complete 4-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund within the first leg of their quarter-final tie on Wednesday. And whereas the competition just isn’t over but, the numerous margin does imply that the Catalan facet are in a position to take much less dangers going into the return leg on the Sign Iduma Park on Tuesday.
And the large danger that they may have taken subsequent week was with Dani Olmo, who has been out for the final couple of weeks after choosing up a muscle harm within the victory over Osasuna. He’s projected to return within the close to future, and he does have possibilities to be concerned towards Dortmund.
However in keeping with MD, it isn’t anticipated that Flick will name upon the Spanish playmaker for the journey to Germany, even when he have been to obtain the medical inexperienced gentle within the build-up to the fixture.
As per the report, Olmo did a part of Thursday’s coaching session together with his Barcelona teammates, and this bodes effectively for this return within the close to future. Nevertheless, he’s dominated out for Saturday’s La Liga match towards Leganes, whereas he’s not anticipated to be thought-about for choice in Dortmund as Flick doesn’t wish to take any dangers together with his restoration, which is smart on condition that it was not Olmo’s first muscle harm of the season.
Olmo was initially dominated out for 3 weeks, and that timeline is not going to have been fulfilled by the point Barcelona face off towards Dortmund within the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie. As such, it might be no shock to see him left within the Catalan capital to proceed his restoration forward of subsequent weekend’s La Liga fixture, which is towards Celta Vigo on the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys.