Although they continue to be unbeaten in La Liga and the Champions League this season, Xavi Hernandez and Barcelona have gotten large issues now Robert Lewandowski has joined a lengthening damage listing.
The striker needed to be substituted halfway by means of the first-half of Barca’s European sojourn to Porto, Ferran Torres taking his place and scoring the purpose that turned out to be the winner.
Xavi shall be counting on Ferran lastly coming good for an prolonged interval as his major man may very well be out for a while but.
In accordance with the official Barcelona web site, the Polish hit-man has a sprained left ankle and he received’t return till the damage has totally healed.
90Min speculate that may very well be just a few weeks but, and due to this fact Lewandowski may find yourself lacking the video games in opposition to Granada, Athletic Membership, Shakhtar Donetsk (x2), Actual Madrid and Actual Sociedad.
With Pedri and Frenkie de Jong additionally sidelined, Barca shall be severely weakened. If all three have been match and firing the blaugranes could be a completely totally different proposition, significantly within the Clasico in opposition to Madrid.
It’s a check of Xavi’s mettle as a coach to see if he can get the very best out of his gamers seemingly when the percentages are stacked in opposition to them.
In the event that they’re capable of emerge from that powerful set of fixtures comparatively unscathed, it may writer how properly the remainder of the season pans out.
