The Barça goes back to the Camp Nou this Saturday for an intense derbi in front of the RCD Espanyol, and Ernesto Valverde will have to fit all the pieces, to present an eleven competitive headline. With the première in Champions in sight and the fatigue accumulated to these heights of the season, the extremeño has found with a drop of last hour.
Sergi Roberto will not be of the game in the turn to LaLiga, since it has fallen to last hour of the Barcelona announcement. In the same official communiqué of the group culé specifies that the one of Reus is drop by caution, because of some annoyances in the expensive intern of the left knee, something logical after it have participated without apparent problems in the session of training of this Friday.
Precisely, the key of his absence is the European clash against the Juventus, that will open a phase of groups of the most demanding for the Catalans, with two parties in a month of cluttered September for the Barça. Valverde Considers to the indispensable midfield player in his plans, by his versatility and tarpaulin, and does not want to risk the most minimum in a season that foresees very long.
Rafinha, without dates
In the contrary edict to Sergi Roberto finds Rafinha Alcántara, the one who, unfortunately, no longer is a surprise in the list of lesionados. The Brazilian continues his work far of the group with the aim to recover what before and enjoy of the minutes and the feelings that the physical problems have snatched him in the last months.