Xavi will have five players available from Barça Atlètic to travel to Plzen

Deleted and with the contingent ensured for the 'playoff' of the Europe League, the FC Barcelona will have to travel this week to Plzen to close the phase of groups of the UEFA Champions League in front of Viktoria. The ones of Xavi Hernández have to complete the calendar of the tournament against the colista of the Group C with plenary of defeats in five days and to the that already golearon in Catalonia in the first date (5-1).

Without at all important at stake and with multiple drops by injury, the technician egarense will take advantage of to give minutes to the players that accumulate less shooting in the season and to several youngsters of the filial that fulfil with the normative UEFA. In this sense, Xavi only will be able to have five players of the Barça Atlètic, but no with his reinforcements neither with Chadi Riad, the best head office of the group directed by Rafa Márquez.

And it is that, according to the valid rule of the UEFA, "a player can be inscribed in the List B of the League of Champions if it has been born, as prompt, on 1 January of the year 2001 and if it has been eligible to play in the club in question during an uninterruptible period of two years since it fulfilled the 15 years". With Riad, the obstacle has to see with this last point, since the player of 19 years was yielded in 2020 to the Sabadell.

By the contrary, yes will be able to add to the expedition to the Czech Republic the goalkeeper Ander Astralaga, the left-handed side Álex Fence in, the midfield players Marc Casadó and Álvaro Sanz and the extreme Ilias Akhomach. Álvaro, Ilias and Marc already have shooting with the first team, by which is almost safe that will see minutes in Plzen in front of a team that only has converted 3 goals in the phase of groups of the Champions, by 20 against.

New opportunity for the canteranos

In the cases of Ilias Akhomach and Álvaro Sanz, both already debuted with the first team the past season. The extreme saw action in a pair of parties of LaLiga and one of Glass of Rey, whereas the mediocentro followed suit in identical quantity of apparitions in both tournaments. Casadó, by his part, accompanied to the team in turns it American of pre-season, whereas the goalkeeper Ander Astralaga and the side Álex Fence in aim to add to the first team for the first time.