A VERY DIFFICULT CALENDAR
All or nothing: Barça's dangerous calendar after the national team break
FC Barcelona will not have time to rest after the national team break. With very little preparation time, the Blaugrana will play a demanding and dangerous series of matches
The FC Barcelona takes action in exactly a week. The ones of Xavi Hernández will do it with calendar very tightened and with very little time to recover , after the international commitments in which they have been the majority of players in this week. The trainer will have to do malabares to achieve that his staff was to 100% and can surrender in the next three parties, that will define a lot in this stretch of the season.
And it is that, just after it restart the football to level of clubs after the stop of selections, the Barça will contest three parties of maximum requirement in exactly six days. Against the Athletic Club, the Sunday 22, in front of the Shakhtar the Wednesday 25 and in front of the Real Madrid the Saturday 28, in the first big Classical of the campaign. The good news is that, in spite of the difficulty and importance of the clashes, the culés will not have to move of the City Condal, something that will diminish the cansacio by the trips.
The plan of Xavi in the middle of the demanding calendar
The trainer egarense is taking in account three key factors of face to the preparation of the parties: The players that are in the infirmary still and that will reappear gradually after the stop (Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and Pedri, in principle), the footballers that will return very demanded after overloads it of minutes with his selections (Gündogan, Ter Stegen, Araújo, Christensen, Gavi...), in addition to the blaugrana that remained in the City Condal in this week. The majority are footballers that are not headlines in the team, except Oriol Romeu.
In this sense, Xavi will have to find the ideal formula to deliver the minutes with the rotations and that the level of the team do not see prejudiced in the process. This, in addition to all the corrections that has to implement after the parties 'toneless' that had had the team in front of Celtic, Port wine, Mallorca or Granada. The tasks are too many and the time is minimum. The forecast is that they exist rotations especially in front of the Athletic and Shakhtar.
Distinct plan for the Classical?
Against the Real Madrid is more than likely that the team take out all the meat to the asador and pose the XI more competitive possible, in which Robert Lewandowski will be the big doubt. It is not confirmed his presence, but the player is doing big efforts to recover in record time. Xavi expects to have all his footballers, to the maximum level, in a party in which it can decide a lot in the career by the leadership of LaLiga.
