Barcelona’s 1-2 defeat to La Palmas was not one many noticed coming, particularly given the opponents’ poor run of kind and that the Catalans had the house benefit.
But, the workforce was below stress and was trailing for a lot of the second interval and Hansi Flick referred to as on all his sturdy sources on the bench together with Frenkie de Jong, Ferran Torres and Pau Victor in assault.
It was thus very stunning to see that Dani Olmo didn’t even heat as much as come on, for his presence within the squad painted an image that his discomfort was not very extreme.
No doubts towards Mallorca
As revealed in a latest replace on AS, Olmo has an overload in his pubis and whereas he may play, the coach determined to err on the aspect of warning regardless of the workforce shedding.
Hansi Flick is relying on Dani Olmo. (Photograph by Alex Caparros/Getty Photographs)
Nevertheless, the outlet reveals that the attacking midfielder will probably be again in motion and that Flick will seemingly even rely on him to start out towards Mallorca midweek.
Additionally anticipated to start out on the evening are Lamine Yamal, who performed solely the second half final evening, Alejandro Balde who left the sector winded after a problem, and Marc Casado who missed the Las Palmas recreation by suspension.
Barcelona will thus have their strongest lineup out there midweek and can look to desperately flip round their state of affairs in La Liga, particularly after dropping eight of their final 9 factors. Olmo, evidently, will probably be key.
To this point this season, the 26-year-old has performed seven league video games for Barcelona and scored 5 targets in that course of. He additionally has created three large possibilities and completes 1.6 dribbles per recreation.