Bad news for Xavi: Ansu, ruled out for Munich

The Ansu Fati effect against Bayern was definitely diluted. The forward will not be in Munich and right now the forecast is that, in the best case scenario, he could be in two weeks against Elche at the Camp Nou. For a few days, as we anticipated in AS, pessimism has been growing about the young forward’s options for the game against Bayern. The player’s desire and enthusiasm were more than anything else, since neither the technicians nor the doctors were going to force the return of the forward.

In principle, it was planned that on Friday it will be tested with the group, but it was finally decided to postpone it to this Sunday. Yet now once again It has been decided to postpone his reinstatement, so it has now been ruled out, in a definitive way that he can help the team in Munich.

It must be remembered that his return to Bayern was more an entelechy than a reality: He was injured on November 6 and there was talk of six to five weeks off, so it came too fair to the game against the German champion, since it has barely been a month. In addition, as it is a particularly delicate muscle for explosive players, the biceps femoris, it is necessary to be much more careful if possible in prevention work and assume the least possible risks.

Xavi Hernández himself already announced at a press conference that mistakes from the past were not going to be repeated and force the return of players who are not one hundred percent and then injure themselves. He already risked, and a lot, two weeks ago with Dembélé and was not willing to go back to gamble now with Fati.

The most difficult thing has been to make the player understand that it is better to wait two more weeks and that he arrives in optimal conditions. In the end, Fati has understood it, and right now his return is set for the game against Elche at the Camp Nou on December 18.

So that, Xavi is going to have it even more complicated if possible, since the pass to the last 16 of the Champions League will be played without a scorer in the team: Memphis has already shown that he can be an associative but not decisive player, Dembélé is the one who tries the most times but with the condition that it will be his first game as a starter this season and Coutinho is simply an unknown, capable of the best and the worst in the same game.