Barcelona boss would possibly flip to sudden defensive pair for Osasuna showdown

With the worldwide break coming to an finish, Barcelona are set to renew their marketing campaign on Thursday as they tackle Osasuna.

This explicit recreation was presupposed to be performed earlier within the month however was postponed because of the demise of first-team physician Carles Minarro.

Heading into this recreation, Barcelona are sweating on the health of their key centre-backs together with Pau Cubarsi and Inigo Martinez.

Whereas it appeared initially that each defenders may make it in time for the Osasuna conflict, current reviews counsel Cubarsi’s health and availability remains to be up within the air.

Garcia and Martinez to begin vs Osasuna?

Amid uncertainty surrounding the provision of Barcelona centre-backs heading into the Osasuna recreation, Diario SPORT has provided a recent replace.

Eric Garcia and Inigo Martinez are prone to begin for Barcelona towards Osasuna this week. (Photograph by Linnea Rheborg/Getty Pictures)

The report suggests Barcelona coach Hansi Flick may financial institution upon the central defensive mixture of Eric Garcia and Inigo Martinez this week.

As talked about earlier, Cubarsi’s health is up within the air whereas Ronald Araujo is ready to return late from worldwide obligation, successfully ruling him out for this encounter. Moreover, Andreas Christensen has nonetheless not achieved match health.

Flick, subsequently, might haven’t any alternative however to depend on the companies of Garcia and Martinez at centre-back – two gamers who’ve not often performed collectively.

In actual fact, Garcia and Martinez have began solely as soon as previously, within the recreation towards Leganes in December. Barcelona ended up dropping the sport 0-1.

The Catalans will hope that gained’t be the case towards Osasuna, who have been in a position to rating 4 objectives towards Flick’s males within the return fixture.