Xavi Hernández has seen how every day that passed a player fell from the list of possible recovered for the game against him Spanish of this Saturday. Already last Tuesday, at its premiere in the Sports City, was informed by the Blaugrana doctors that he would have four safe casualties for the derby: Ousmane Dembélé, Ansu Fati, Kun Agüero y Martin Braithwaite. That is, four forwards who would not be available for his coaching debut.
But things got worse as the week went by, since despite the green outbreak of retrieve goalkeeper netAfter overcoming a feverish process, the bad news has been accumulating on the table. First Sergiño Dest, who had a very painful low back pain that prevented him from exercising, and then with the confirmation that Pedri had had a bad feeling in the session this Tuesday, having to stop short with his return to the pitch and start again from practically zero from his injury to the quadriceps of his left leg. .
To top, Sergi Roberto and Gerard Piqué reach the limit to Saturday’s game, so it will not be decided until tomorrow if they are discharged and enter the call. It must be remembered that the two captains have a long history of relapses and injuries that force doctors to be very cautious. Sergi Roberto drags an injury in the quadriceps of the right leg, the same one that left him four months out last season, while Piqué has a soleus injury in his right leg. To this day, it seems that the central defender has more options to enter the squad than the midfielder.
Who yes he recovers with complete security Xavi is Nico González and Eric García. The first is fully recovered from an overload on the left adductor, while the second has also overcome its overload on the right calf. Both will receive on discharge and may be available for the game against him. Spanish.
In the end, a very small number of players recovered, despite the two-week hiatus by the national teams, since out of a total of eleven casualties that ended after the match against Celta in Vigo, Xavi has only guaranteed three registrations -Neto, Nico and Eric-, with the doubt of Piqué and even more unlikely if possible, of Sergi Roberto.