Xavi Hernandez He has seven casualties due to injury for the League game against Osasuna this Sunday (Movistar / LaLiga, 4.15pm), so his first eleven of what he himself classified as a new stage at Barça after falling in Munich looks like the hardest. The Barça coach has seven players in the infirmary: Pedri, Sergi Roberto, Ansu Fati, Kun Aguero, Braithwaite and the last two to fall, Alba and Memphis for muscular problems. The left back, due to discomfort in the hamstrings of the right thigh and the forward, due to an injury to the biceps femoris in the left thigh. It is the highest figure since he arrived. Against Espanyol and Benfica he regretted six injured.
In defense, Xavi will have to improvise solutions. One of the most likely is to maintain the structure that he had against Bayern, with Araujo as the right back and to recycle Deso Mingueza by the other band. The other formula is to put two pure centrals and Dest Y Mingueza, divide the sides. And the third way is to give Balde minutes on the left.
In attack, it is more complicated. Memphis until now it had been a basic prop. Dembele happens to occupy this function of titleholder, with Luke de Jong at the leading edge and Abde The Yusuf Demir at the other end. Unless you dispense with the Dutchman and change the system to have only two advanced players.
With fair forwards
But the problem of the goal is aggravated more when the numbers are seen. Barça has scored 23 goals in LaLiga and Xavi will travel to Pamplona without having the authors of 16 of them: Memphis (8), Sergi Roberto (2), Ansu Fati (3), Braithwaite (2) and Agüero (1). Of the remaining strikers, the Terrassa coach will be able to count on Luuk de Jong (1) and Coutinho (2), because none of the others who have been testing extremes have managed to score. Dembélé has not been released. The rest of the goals have been the work of two defenders, Piqué (1) and Araujo (1) and two midfielders, Busquets (1) and Frenkie de Jong (1)
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