FC Barcelona faces the first game of the year in a dramatic situation. For now, he has fourteen casualties to play against Mallorca next Sunday, January 2. And it is that a few minutes before starting the afternoon training session it became official that Alejandro Balde had also tested positive for coronavirus in the antigens that all the footballers had made this morning. So, Bucket, what begins a home confinement of ten days, joins the list of positives of Barcelona, made up of Clement Lenglet, Dani Alves and Jordi Alba.
Curiously, two of the positive Covid players are left backs, so Barcelona will travel to Mallorca totally orphaned in that position, having to resort to a defense of three centrals again, where Lenglet will not be either.
As we have already commented, Barcelona in addition to the four positives (Until tomorrow there could still be some more surprise when the results of the PCR are known), Xavi Sergio Busquets and Gavi, sanctioned, will not be able to line up in Mallorca.
It remains to be seen, in any case, the number of injuries that could be recovered for this game, taking into account that He doesn’t have many options either: both Ferran Torres, Fati, Braithwaite, Memphis and Sergi Roberto are safe casualties, so the only alternatives would be Demir, Dest and Pedri, although the latter in no case would be in the eleven.