Ansu Fati is ruled out for the tie against PSG. In fact, both the player and the club's doctors and Ramon Cugat himself, the surgeon who operated on him, do not want to set return deadlines, aware that it would only serve right now to feed the player's anxiety and despair. At the club they are very clear that the absolute priority is to recover 100% of Fati's left knee, a player with only 18 years old and with a long career ahead of him, so it does not matter the time and the methods that have to be carried out to achieve it.
It is true that already From the beginning, it seemed almost an entelechy that reached the tie against PSG, since the return to Paris is on March 10, a day after the announced four-month absence, but the player began his recovery with the illusion of being able to reach this important appointment on the calendar. Under normal conditions, after three months of the operation -he was injured on November 7 and had surgery two days later-, the medial meniscus suture scar would have to be fully healed and the player would have to begin continuous running and field work.
Nevertheless, As AS has learned, the reality is quite different: the left knee continues to give him headaches, since when the workload is increased it swells too easily, having to stop and reduce the intensity of the exercises. This situation does not allow us to move forward or break down stages, so they have been forced to slow down the entire process in search of a solution that will address these knee problems.
The situation is being so desperate that it has not even been ruled out that the player has to go through the operating room again to check the causes of the lack of adequate response of the injured knee. In fact, Dr. Ramon Cugat has taken the player's injury as a personal challenge, calling the club's doctors practically every day to find out his progress and going to the Ciutat Esportiva once a week to consult with the player. It should be remembered that Fati underwent a treatment with growth factors in early January -plasma centrifuged from the blood itself and saturated with platelets- to facilitate healing, but unfortunately it has not had the expected result.
Parallel to Fati, the situation with Gerard Piqué is much more optimistic and hopeful. First, because the sensations in recent days have been very positive, as revealed by the SER, and second, because in his case he does not need the knee to be 100% to be able to play: for a player of his age, he turned 34 yesterday, with the conservative therapy that he has followed to solve his cruciate ligament tear in his right knee, it would be considered good that it reached 80%.