Hansi Flick has been handed an actual headache. La Liga, towards the desires of each FC Barcelona and Osasuna, has scheduled their postponed Matchday 27 fixture for Thursday, 27 March.
With the membership’s enchantment getting rejected, the match will happen proper after the worldwide break, with two Barcelona gamers – Ronald Araujo and Raphinha – having lower than 48 hours of restoration time and lengthy journey to and from South America.
Including to Flick’s troubles are the current accidents to Marc Casado and Inigo Martinez, making it even more durable to assemble a aggressive beginning XI.
To complicate issues additional, Barcelona face one other essential match towards Girona at 16:15 (CET) on Sunday, lower than 72 hours after the Osasuna conflict.
Barcelona working to carry gamers again early
As such, in line with SPORT, Barcelona are negotiating with the Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF) to permit Gerard Martin, Fermin Lopez, and Pablo Torre to return early from the Spain Below-21 squad.
Martin earned his first-ever call-up to the U-21 nationwide workforce for the friendlies towards the Czech Republic and Germany, becoming a member of Fermin and Torre, who’re already regulars underneath Santi Denia.
Gerard Martin has earned his first call-up to Spain U-21 squad. (Picture by Alex Caparros/Getty Photos)
The plan is for the younger trio to be launched from the squad after Friday’s pleasant towards the Czech Republic.
Since these are pleasant matches, there must be no main obstacles to their early return. If the settlement goes by, the three gamers will probably be again in Barcelona on Saturday.
The thought is for the Barcelona trio to skip Tuesday’s pleasant towards Germany, relaxation on Sunday, and return to coaching with the membership on Monday. In the event that they have been to play the second pleasant, they’d have virtually no time to recuperate for the Osasuna conflict.
Denia has known as up a big squad, and many of the different gamers within the group would not have membership commitments till the subsequent weekend.
Making certain Torre, Martin, and Fermin return early can be an important enhance for Flick forward of a difficult run of fixtures.