Confirmed loss at Barça for the last game of 2023 against Almería

The FC Barcelona will not be able to explain for the last official party of the season with which is right now his best footballer. Frenkie Of Jong, the MVP of the culés against Valencia, saw his fifth yellow cardboard in the minute 77 of meeting and will not be able to play in front of the Almería this Wednesday to the 19:00 hours by sanction. An authentic 'drama' for Xavi Hernández, that will have to 'invent' to form his centre of the field against the Andalusians.

The Dutch comes being since it recovered of his unlucky injury one of the two or three better of the Barça in the majority of meetings. The '21' already had showed before lesionarse that was key for the team, but during his absence his importance has seen even more. Lose him in a moment so delicate like east, being forced to win to close the year, is a work without place to doubts.

Reviewing the cards received by Of Jong in League, is curious as of the five that has four have been from the minute 75. In concrete, between these four yellow, the mentioned in front of Valencia was in the 77, another in front of the Osasuna in the 83 and the two last, in front of Ray and Athletic, in the discount of the crashes. It is incredible as almost all have been in the last minutes, with the duels already almost finished.

Alternatives of Xavi to substitute to Of Jong

Without Frenkie and with Gavi lesionado, the only two alternatives that has Xavi for the duel against the Almería are Oriol Romeu and Fermín López. The ex of the Girona comes to do his worst party with the T-shirt of the Barcelona in front of the Amberes, where gave two goals, by what is not the best moment to trust he. By his part, the Andalusian has gone down enough the level regarding his brutal first crashes with the first team, but to level of confidence perhaps was better that Romeu.