Ronald Koeman takes 21 players to Valladolid, 19 from the first team and two from the subsidiary. In fact, the Dutch coach summons all available men to Pucela. The only exception is the Brazilian Matheus fernandes, which is left out by technical decision. Precisely in a game where he would meet again with some of his teammates: the now Barcelona player was on loan for half a season in the Pucelano team last year, passing without pain or glory.
Although much worse is being his journey for FC Barcelona where he has not even debuted in LaLiga. In fact, it hardly counts for Koeman, being the player with the fewest minutes of the entire squad: 17 minutes exactly. AND is that of the 19 official games that Barcelona has played this year, it has only played one and in an almost testimonial way: on November 24 against Dinamo Kiev (0-4) in the Champions League.
Koeman maintains the already known casualties of the three long-term injured -Gerard Piqué, Ansu Fati and Sergi Roberto- and that of Ousmane Dembélé, who suffered an elongation in the hamstrings of his right leg against Cádiz. Although, in the case of the French forward, he is on the verge of being discharged; If there is no setback, he will return for the match against Eibar at the Camp Nou on December 29.
This time only two players from the subsidiary complete the call: goalkeeper Iñaki Peña and defender Óscar Mingueza. Who falls from the list is forward Konrad de la Fuente.
The complete list of footballers to play the game against Valladolid this Tuesday (10pm) at Nuevo Zorrilla is made up of: Ter Stegen, Neto, Lenglet, Umtiti, Araújo, Alba, Junior, Pjanic, De Jong, Busquets, Dest, Aleñá, Pedri, Riqui Puig, Griezmann, Coutinho, Messi, Trincao, Braithwaite, Peña and Mingueza.