The calendar gives Barça oxygen in the final stretch of the season

The early elimination of the Europe League has left a good news in the FC Barcelona: have a calmer calendar in the final stretch of the season. The beginning of the month of March allows, for the first time in the last two months, have two weeks 'free' to prepare the next days of LaLiga, in which the ones of Xavi Hernández can sentence the title two months before the end of the tournament.

And it is that, if the Barça had followed alive in the Europe League, the two next Thursday there had been action in the eighth of final, engaging even more to a notably wear# out team after the last three weeks of intense activity. The culés came of lidiar with the eliminatory in front of the Manchester United and the gone of 'semis' of Glass of the King in front of the Real Madrid, this last crash contested grieve two days and half before receiving to Valencia.

Men like Jules Koundé, Andreas Christensen and Frenkie of Jong accused the wear in front of the accumulation of minutes, losing the Danish the Classical copero by a hit in the ankle suffered in Almería, whereas the Dutch was substituted in the halftime of the crash in front of the Valency by annoyances in the isquiotibiales. Previously, Koundé and Ronald Araújo had rested in Almería in front of the risk to break .

After the triumph in front of the group 'Ché', Xavi gave two free days to his players to rest, as in February were seven the parties that the Barça had to play, added to the eight contested in January and the two that, for the moment, have remained on the way this month. 17 parties in little more than two months that have left important drops (Ousmane Dembélé, Pedri and Robert Lewandowski), but now arrives the moment to take oxygen and encarar, with greater tranquility, the final stretch of the season.

Saint Mamés and the Classical, two key dates

The proximo Sunday, the FC Barcelona will visit to the Athletic of Bilbao with the tranquility to having expanded to nine points his advantage with the Real Madrid, following rival in the calendar. In this case, the culés will have six days to prepare the Classical suspender belt, but to the 'merengues' remains them, of by half, the turn of the eighth of Champions League in front of the Liverpool this week, a party that, further of the advantage obtained in Anfield, does not leave to be of high risk for the ones of Carlo Ancelotti.

For the Classical of 19 March, the Barça well could have recovered already to his three lesionados, or at least to Dembélé and Lewandowski, this last perhaps in conditions, even, to reappear in Saint Mamés. In the meantime, Xavi takes the things calmly and, faithful to his habit during all the season, no apurará any return to avoid another injury. In his defect, neither will force with those who are to the limit (case Frenkie), since the staff has the sufficient depth as for rotar in defence and midfield.