Summit with Ansu to decide his ownership

Ansu Fati will not start this Thursday at San Mamés. At least those are the sensations in the absence of less than 24 hours for the match. In any case, it is expected that this Thursday the coaches, player and doctors will meet, when they land in Bilbao, to finish making a decision. obviously for Xavi The presence of Ansu in the eleven would be a blessing, especially considering the numerous casualties that the team arrives in attack, starting with Luuk de Jong, suspended, and Memphis Depay, with muscular discomfort, to which Ousmane Dembélé must be added at the last minute, having rejected the renewal offer by the club.

Faced with such a situation, the presence of Fati in the eleven was established as vital for the interests of the team. However, the doctors have stopped the siren songs, making it very clear that you cannot take risks with the young striker, since the injury that has left him off the pitch for the last two months is especially delicate. Hence, the advice of the doctors is to play between 30 to 35 minutes. In other words, Fati still can’t be a starter and even less so in a high-intensity game. In fact, the 55 minutes he played against Real Madrid in the Cup (25 minutes plus 30 extra time) was “an accidental event”, according to the locker room.

In any case, the final decision will be made a few hours before the match, in the conclave planned between doctors, technicians and player. In this sense, it will not be the player who has the last word, as happened in other seasons, but now the leading and authorized voice will be the medical officer, Ricard Pruna.

So, if it is finally confirmed that Fati starts on the bench, Xavi’s options in the starting eleven are certainly bizarre, with an offensive trident made up of Ez Abde, Ferran Torres and Ferran Jutglà. And with The fate Y Braithwaite as relays in the second half.