After 67 days of care after suffering a break in the hamstring in his left leg in Vigo when he was playing a great game and finally felt liberated, Ansu Fati is ready to reappear with Barça. The recovery has taken longer than expected because the club, which is normally already conservative in itself, had set the return of the international in six weeks. The most optimistic assured that he could force to play in Munich (the game against Bayern was played on December 8), but Ansu did not play that day. Neither in Pamplona, against Elche or in Seville. And he has not been able to play the first three games of the year against Mallorca, Linares and Granada.
The recovery has been lengthened in a somewhat strange way, but after having hibernated for more than two months in a glass urn, Ansu has to go out and show that he is recovered to play, more in a game of maximum demand against Madrid. Also rIt was strange that Xavi preferred to leave him in Barcelona and not try it against Granada. According to some sources, Ansu is here to play 45 minutes in Arabia, so it could have been seen as reasonable that Barça’s new ’10’ had had a quarter of an hour in Los Cármenes.
In any case, Xavi and his medical team are on the lead with Ansu. After ten months of absence due to the injury to his internal meniscus, which was operated on several times, and especially the relapse, they do not want to take false steps with a player who, in a couple of moments, and with goals like him from Kiev, had somewhat changed the face of the team.
Ansu returns in the Classical, a game in which he already knows what it is to score, but has not been able to win yet. Koeman gave him stripes this season, but the forward, far from his best form still, somewhat rusty and without a spark, could not help his team and Barça lost 1-2. Despite having scored goals like the one that scored against Valencia, and having left a mark in the games against Levante, Celta or Dinamo Kiev, it has never been one hundred percent this season. And when he saw it, in Balaídos, it broke again. A setback that Xavi does not want to repeat. Then, yes, there is the player. His feelings will rule and, from what is known from the last training sessions, Ansu feels prepared to leave the bubble and return in this major game.