Xavi, relieved: Alba and Alves, negative, and Nico and Mingueza, only ramps

Xavi Hernández has reasons to breathe a sigh of relief, and not only because of the very important victory against Mallorca (0-1), which places the Blaugrana just one point away from the zone Champions, but because he begins to receive good news from the infirmary. And it is that we must not forget that the Blaugrana coach arrived at Sunday’s game with a total of 16 casualties, including positives, penalties and injuries. Well, just after the match against Mallorca, Xavi received the news that both Jordi Alba and Dani Alves tested negative in the PCR and they will be able to join training this Monday. It’s more, Gavi, Abde, Dest and Balde are also on the exit ramp, which could also be incorporated in the next few hours if the results are negative.

The feelings regarding the two players who were forced to leave the pitch early are also good: Nico González and Óscar Mingueza. In principle, the first explorations inside the changing room confirm some simple ramps, which will not prevent them in any case from being on Wednesday at Linares for the party of Cup.

Xavi also recovers Sergio Busquets, after completing the penalty game this Sunday, and surely there could be good news regarding reducing the long injured list. In this case, Pedri could return to a call almost three months later.

So if all this good news is confirmed, Xavi could recover a total of seven footballers, so he would end up with nine casualties for the Cup match, including Ferran Torres, which despite being presented this Monday, will still have to wait a few days to play. First because he is in the final stretch of his injury and second because the club still cannot register him until it begins to release chips and salary mass in the first team.