The FC Barcelona will travel to Madrid to confront to the Athletic of Madrid with a very important drop. The club confirmed the injury in the left knee of Sergio Busquets and, officially, the midfield player remains out of the list of available players for the clash of this Saturday in front of the colchoneros.
Through a communiqué in his web page, the Barcelona has confirmed that Busquets had been visited by the Medical Services of the club this Wednesday and confirmed the diagnostic of sprain of the external lateral ligament of the left knee of the midfield player. Whereas the Spanish selection had communicated that the sprain was "slight", the Barcelona club did not offer details on the depth of the injury of Busquets.
The Barça has said that the footballer of 33 years "is drop and the evolution will mark his availability", without offering details on the time estimated in which the midfield player will be moved away of the terrains of games. With the first examinations of the selection, had commented that Busquets went to be drop by a week. Only it went to lose the clash in front of Germany and, possibly, the visit of the Barcelona to the Camp Nou. Now, without a certainty on the gravity of the injury of knee, go back to light the alarms.
Busquets, a fixed player for Koeman
In the beginning of campaign, Sergio Busquets had turned into an indisputable player in the approach of Ronald Koeman in the Barça. The Catalan has contested, to date, ten meetings with the Barcelona, 8 of them like titling (7 of League and 3 of Champions League).
With the Spanish selection, the Barcelona player had contested all the parties of the Nations League, against Germany and Switzerland, in addition to a friendly in front of Portugal, with a total of 208 minutes. In the most recent clash in front of Switzerland (1-1), Busquets was forced to abandon the field by some annoyances in his knee, after a hit during a dispute of a balloon with Embolo.