The Saturday 8 August, the FC Barcelona will face the party of turn of the eighth of final of the Champions League against the Naples in the Camp Nou. At stake there will be a note for the final to four that will take place in Lisbon to close the season, in which the group directed by Quique Setién will have his last opportunity not to close the course in white and do it topping in Europe.
Although it seems that finally the technician santanderino will be able to have players like Antoine Griezmann or Clément Lenglet, that finish LaLiga Santander and were doubt to confront to the Naples in the Champions League, finally everything indicates that it will not be able to do it with Ousmane Dembélé, that is in the last stage of his process of recovery but that does not seem that it go to arrive to time for the duel.
It is necessary to remember that the past month of February, Ousmane Dembélé recayó of the injury that had produced in the proximal sinew of the biceps femoral of the right thigh and finally had to be taken part quirúrgicamente in Finland. The medical services of the FC Barcelona gave him a time of recovery of six months, by what the stop of the competitions owing to the coronavirus gave him hopes to go back before finish the season.
In spite of that Ousmane Dembélé already trains in the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper, it is necessary to mention that it carries eight months without playing to the football - lesionó in November and recayó before playing an official party- by what although it obtain the high medical, the technicians would have to evaluate if it also can him give the high competitive, that is used to to take two weeks more than average in this type of injuries.
Thus, the French will not be to the one hundred by one hundred until the next course. Although to Quique Setién would love him can have Ousmane Dembélé for his round to the Champions League, the prudence will impose to the sportive needs and more taking into account the record of injuries of 'the mosquito'. Against the Naples will not play, although it will be necessary to see if it could infiltrate of face to the next rounds in case to win in front of the Italians.
Ousmane Dembélé Expects to solve his problem
Ousmane Dembélé Carries three seasons in the FC Barcelona, but has been news more by his constant injuries that by his brilliant quality. The French has left brushstrokes of class in the parties in which it has participated, but his ordeal of physical problems has subtracted him a lot of continuity. After the operation to which was subjected at the beginning of 2020, expects that his problem can solve on a long-term basis, avoiding new relapses.