ALARM: Andrés Iniesta suffered a muscular injury and was substituted!

Bad news for the FC Barcelona, that lost to one of his men more determinants in the corresponding party to the vigesimoséptima day of League Santander that confronted to the Barcelona team against the Athletic of Madrid. Andrés Iniesta, captain of the team directed by Ernesto Valverde, suffered a tug in the thigh and had to be substituted by André Gomes in the minute 35 of game.

The midfield player manchego lesionó in a played in the centre of the field, pugnando with a balloon with Šime Vrsaljko, side of the Athletic of Madrid. Iniesta initiated the career, forcejeó and immediately detained , after feeling a prick in the previous part of the thigh of his right leg.

Andrés Iniesta carried the hand to the thigh, remained tended in the terrain of game and asked the change to the instant. However, it remained speaking with the medical services of the FC Barcelona and decided to expect to make the replacement, waiting for if it could continue. However, happened the half hour, when the marker was of 1-0 by the goal of Messi, asked the change.

In the moment of the mishap, Ernesto Valverde commanded to heat to three players: André Gomes, Paulinho and Ousmane Dembélé. The technician extremeño, conscious that the FC Barcelona was the clear dominador of the party, opted by the Portuguese midfield player not to have to modify his diagram and follow having the control of the party.

Problem for Valverde

The injury of Andrés Iniesta, waiting for that confirm the time that can be of drop, is a grave setback for Ernesto Valverde. The midfield player manchego was in a moment of spectacular form and was the man that marked the guideline of game in the room of machines of the Barcelona team. Waiting for the party of turn against Chelsea, the injury of the captain is one very bad news.