Eric Garcia, 5 weeks KO

The bad news continues to accumulate in Xavi Hernández’s logbook. If against Linares in the Cup it was Frenkie de Jong and Ronald Araújo who were injured -the central defender also had to go through the operating room on Friday to undergo surgery for a double fracture in his right hand-, now against Granada, the victim has been Eric Garcia.

The center-back, who requested the change as soon as he noticed a puncture in the back of his right thigh after a jump, He has seen the worst forecasts come to fruition. And it is that if as soon as the game ended, the doctors confirmed that the injury pointed to important and that he was going to lose the Super Cup for sure, as we anticipated in AS, the tests he underwent this morning confirmed the extent of the injury at its worst.

The club sent a statement at the end of noon specifying that Eric suffered from “a distal injury in the biceps femoris of the right leg” and that the time of loss would be “about five weeks”. In the case of the forecast, we have to applaud that on this occasion the recovery period has not been hidden or concealed, something that the club has been doing for a long time without any blush. It is clear that the arrival of a new head of medical services also serves to provide a little light in the face of so much darkness.

Thus, Eric Garcia will not return to the pitch until the end of February, practically coinciding with Barcelona’s tie against Naples in the Europa League. A minimum of five games will surely be lost, pending whether it continues to burn stages in the Cup and progresses to the final of the Super Cup: Real Madrid, Athletic, Alavés, Atlético de Madrid and Espanyol.