Few novelties in the list that Ronald Koeman has offered for Saturday's game against Osasuna. The most outstanding: the return of midfielder Miralem Pjanic after being discharged after the morning session. It should be remembered that the Bosnian international had not participated in the last two games due to a sore right ankle.
Neither Gerard Piqué nor Ronald Araújo are on the list. The former suffered a grade two sprain to the medial lateral ligament of his right knee that le will maintain about three weeks off, as announced by AS, while the second has not yet recovered from the relapse he suffered in his left ankle last Saturday in the LaLiga match against Sevilla (0-2) at Sánchez Pizjuán.
Two blaugrana who travel to Pamplona are warned of sanction: Leo Messi and Frenkie de Jong. Taking into account that the next game in the league is against bottom bottom Huesca at the Camp Nou, it would not be surprising if both want to arrive clean of cards for the final stretch of the season.
Apart from Piqué and Araújo, the injured Ansu Fati, Philippe Coutinho and Sergi Roberto are still out.
The subsidiary midfielder, Ilaix Moriba, who accompanies Iñaki Peña and Óscar Mingueza among the subsidiary players called up for this Saturday's game remains.
The complete list of footballers to play this Saturday (9 pm) against Osasuna in Nuevo Sadar is made up of: Ter Stegen, Neto, Dest, Junior, Lenglet, Alba, Umtiti, De Jong, Busquets, Matheus, Pjanic, Pedri, Matheus, Riqui Puig, Griezmann, Braithwaite, Dembélé, Messi, Trincao, Peña, Ilaix and Mingueza.