The situation of the Barça squad for the match in Mallorca

Just two days before the first game of the Barça in 2022, this coming Sunday in Mallorca, the panorama that plagues the Barcelona squad in the form of positives for coronavirus, injuries and sanctions complicates things a lot. And is that the technician, Xavi Hernandez you will have a difficult ballot to resolve when deciding eleven. To date, the one from Terrassa only has seven outfield players from the first team: Piqué, Araujo, Mingueza, Eric Garcia, Frenkie de Jong, Riqui Puig and Luuk de Jong. The doormen, Ter Stegen and Neto, are also available, as well as Iñaki Peña, with the ‘B’ tab. And although he has a filial file but since the course began he is already one of the first team, Nico Gonzalez is also available.

Both to complete the eleven and the call, then, Xavi will have to pull the subsidiary, as he has already done in some games, and bet on players like Ferran Jutglà, Álvaro Sanz, Comas, Mika Mármol, Guillem Jaime, Lucas de Vega, Ilias and Estanis. He will always have to have seven players from the first team on the field if he does not want to incur a possible improper alignment.

One possible once Well, it could be the one formed by Ter Stegen; Araujo, Piqué, Eric Garcia, Mingueza; Frenkie de Jong, Nico, Riqui Puig; Ilias, Luuk de Jong and Jutglà.

Ten positives for coronavirus

If there are no more news, although the club does not rule out that some of this could be negative and reach the game against the Balearic Islands, there are currently ten positives for coronavirus in the Barça squad: Dani Alves, who could not play either since he is not registered, Lenglet, Jordi Alba, Balde, Umtiti, Dest, Gavi, which is also sanctioned, Coutinho, Dembélé and Abde.

Five injured

Although some of them could be discharged and under Xavi’s command in the first game of next year, Pedri, Memphis, Braithwaite, Ansu Fati y Sergi Roberto They are the players who are currently on leave due to injury in the Barça squad. The Canarian, who already trained this week, is the one with the most numbers to reappear in Mallorca, but the Dutch striker cannot be ruled out either, although it remains to be seen if they are ready to play at the start. They all continue with their recovery and even this Friday, Memphis, Ansu and Braithwaite went to the Ciutat Esportiva despite the fact that the squad had a day off.

Two sanctioned

Gavi, which is also positive for coronavirus, and Sergio BusquetsThey will not be in Mallorca either since they saw the fifth yellow in the last game of 2021, at Sánchez Pizjuán against Sevilla.

Demir’s case

Except monumental surprise, it will not be Yusuf Demir In mallorca. The Austrian, “pending to resolve his future” as reported by the club, no longer trained this week and was also absent in the last two games due to gastroenteritis. He will not play his tenth game with Barça because if he did, it would force him to sign and pay 10 million euros to Rapid Vienna. Completely opposite is the case of Ferran TorresAlthough the Valencian will not be under Xavi’s orders in Mallorca either, as he is not registered and is still injured.

The situation of the workforce

AVAILABLE
​Ter Stegen
grandchild
Iñaki Peña (subsidiary profile)
Pique
Araujo
Mingueza
Eric Garcia
Frenkie de Jong
Riqui Puig
Nico (subsidiary file)
Luke de Jong

POSITIVE BY CORONAVIRUS
Dani Alves (December 27)
Lenglet (December 27)
Jordi Alba (December 28)
Bucket (December 28)
Umtiti (December 29)
Dembélé (December 29)
Gavi (December 29)
Coutinho (December 30)
Dest (December 30)
Abde (December 30)

INJURED
​Pedri
Ansu Fati
Braithwaite
Memphis
Sergi Roberto

SANCTIONED
Busquets
Gavi

OTHER CASES
Demir (pending to resolve his future)
Ferran Torres (injured and unregistered)

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