Unexpected drop! Joao Cancelo, out of the important Atlético-Barça

Joao Cancel will not be available this Sunday for the Athletic of Madrid-FC Barcelona to contest from the 21:00 hours in the Civitas Metropolitan. The luso is drop of last hour after dragging annoyances in his left knee during the last weeks and expects by the official communiqué of the club that confirm the reason of his absence for the party of League.

The one of Barreiro was 18 days went in January by a distention of the internal lateral ligament of the left knee and has played it practically everything from his return around the middle of this month, doing an extra effort like left-handed side after the grave injury of Alejandro Balde. Up to now, the '2' accumulates 2.514 minutes of action delivered in 32 parties in all the competitions, adding 4 goals and 4 assistances.

Marcos Alonso went in in the list in front of the Athletic, but Ferran no

The others two novelties of the announcement to visit to the Athletic have to see with Marcos Alonso and Ferran Torres. The technical body expected to have both for the crash in the Metropolitan, but only the Madrilenian defender could recover to time of the lumbalgia that has kept him in the infirmary from the month of December. Marcos grieve has seen action in 7 parties this season, accumulating 299 minutes of game.

Ferran, by his part, will have a pair of weeks more to recover completely of the injury in the biceps femoral of the right thigh suffered in the party in front of the Osasuna the past 31 January. The club does not want to run risks and, taking advantage of the stop of selections, expects that the Valencian can reappear in the duel in front of the UD The Palms. The priority, this yes, is to have the '11' to tope for the eliminatory of quarter-finals of Champions in front of Paris Saint-Germain.

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New opportunity for Héctor Fort

For his part, the loss of Joao Cancelo once again opens the doors to the XI culé for Héctor Fort. The youth player has responded to the trust of Xavi Hernández with good performances in recent months and, in the absence of the Portuguese, logic points to seeing the Catalan in the lineup, since Marcos Alonso has not played since November 7 (against Shkahtar).