The second friendly of the Barça of Koeman, against the Girona

Barça and Girona will play a friendly match next Wednesday, October 16 (19:00) in which it will be the second pre-season commitment for the Barça team and the debut for Girona. Both clubs finished the season later (Barça due to the Champions League and Girona for playing the promotion playoffs) so they will not start the league competition at the same time as their rivals.

This match, which will be played at the Ciutat Esportiva de Sant Joan Despí, It will have the same scenario as the one that will be the debut of Koeman as head of the team: on Saturday 12 September against Nàstic de Tarragona. It is expected that Leo Messi can already participate in both games. The team will not make their official debut until September 26 or 27, when they will face Villarreal at the Camp Nou.

For Girona it will instead be the first pre-season friendly, Well, the other that he has programmed, against Zaragoza, will be later. It is more than likely, in fact, that Francisco's team will not play more friendlies before starting the competition.