THE URUGUAYAN COULD RETURN AGAINST ESPANYOL
Ronald Araújo, Xavi's 'ace up his sleeve' for the Catalan derby
Barça is a few days away from resuming the LaLiga course against Espanyol in the Catalan derby. One of the footballers who is paying attention is Ronald Araújo, who could return to the pitch on New Year's Eve
Ronald Araújo continues recovering of the avulsión of the sinew of the aductor long of the right thigh that suffered during the friendly party between Iran and Uruguay of face to the World-wide of Qatar. His announcement to the competition lit the alarms in the Spotify Camp Nou due to the fact that the club did not want any relapse, although at the end it did not contest neither an alone minute with the elastic celestial.
The defender returned to Barcelona once the appointment mundialista came to an end for the sudamericanos, but Xavi Hernández gave him some free days for desconectar of face to the start of the second half of the season. With all this on the table, the player is entirely focused in recovering the rhythm of competition and go back to the alignments of the trainer.
Although they still have not fulfilled the three months provisorios after his go through the operating theatre, the date that has marked to go back to the lawn would be the next 31 December. The 'charrúa' wants to compete in the derbi of Catalonia in front of the Espanyol and keep the leadership of LaLiga with seen to the Supercopa of Spain that will celebrate in Riad.
Already Araújo affirmed to have very good feelings of face to the party during the act of presentation of the new docuserie 'FC Barcelona, a new was', by what Xavi could incorporate him in the alignment if it considers it timely. Still they subtract him 10 days to test and know if it is to the one hundred percent during the trainings, being a 'ace under the sleeve' for the second half of the campaign.
It could protect him some days more
Another of the options that has the technician is to reserve him during the derbi and range him in front of the Athletic of Madrid, one of the direct rivals of the Barça in the career by the title. The colchoneros will receive to the culés on 8 January in the Cívitas Metropolitan, in the first clash between both in what it goes of League. It could be a proof of fire for the central and the type of challenges that needs to travel again to Half Orient in search of the Supercopa.
