Barcelona are getting ready to tackle Benfica within the first leg of their Champions League spherical of 16 tie, however they so with out realizing if Gavi is ready to play on the Estadio da Luz on Wednesday night time. The midfielder, who additionally missed the weekend victory over Actual Sociedad, has been struggling with sickness.
Talking in his pre-match press convention (by way of MD), Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick gave an replace on Gavi’s state of affairs, which shall be decided by the medical workers.
“We’ll see. Yesterday he didn’t practice as a result of he didn’t really feel effectively. The physician will see it and make up his thoughts.”
Flick additionally spoke on the midfield debate involving Gavi and Dani Olmo. Each gamers that performed alongside Marc Casado/Frenkie de Jong and Pedri in current weeks, and the German believes that they’re every glorious in their very own regards.
“Gavi can play in several positions, he presses and offers us a defensive temper. He additionally performs effectively with the ball. Olmo enjoys that place – he scores targets and generates probabilities.”
Flick was additionally requested about Robert Lewandowski, whose objective in opposition to La Actual on the weekend noticed him break the non-public goalscoring report for a season since transferring to Barcelona in the summertime of 2022. The Polish striker is on 34 targets for the marketing campaign.
“It’s all the time good to have a striker who scores so many targets and that the group provides him that chance. It’s a collective mission. That’s the key. We have now to proceed as we now have these final two months.”
Barcelona will hope that Lewandowski is firing in Lisbon on Wednesday night time, as he was throughout the earlier assembly between the 2 groups when he netted twice from the penalty is a exceptional 5-4 victory for the Catalan giants. An analogous consequence this time round can be welcomed, though Flick will hope that his aspect is best defensively.