Xavi withdrew to a centenarian Ronald Araújo thinking in the decisive Napoli-Barça

The FC Barcelona attained to achieve a triumph agónico in front of the Celtic of Vigo (1-2), by what still keeps alive his apparently complicated hopes to be still in career by the leadership LaLiga. Nevertheless, further of the result, the Barcelona cast lived in this day in Balaídos an event that generated some intrigue and east had to see with the unexpected replacement of Ronald Araújo to the minute 45. In his place ingresó Iñigo Martínez and that raised all type of speculations around if the charrúa would have suffered some physical mishap or if his replacement answered to a tactical decision.

Fortunately, as it reflected in 'Sportive World', the replacement does not answer to any physical problem, but rather to a movement in plough to preserve physically to the Uruguayan. This is so that it arrive in optimum conditions for the crossing of the eighth of final of the UEFA Champions League, which will contest next Wednesday (21/02) in the Stadium Diego Armando Maradona in front of the Napoli. A clash that has all the parchments to be a duel of a lot of physical and big deployment rhythm, and in which the Catalan picture plays big part of his options to be in the following phase of this magno contest.

Xavi cleared that Ronald Araújo does not have any injury

It is necessary to remember that the Uruguayan did not go of the game in the duel in front of the Granada CF, and a lot of this attributed to a hit that received in the commitment of the day 23 of LaLiga in front of the Alavés. Therefore, apparently from the Barcelonan square estimated convenient give him minutes of rest. Nevertheless, according to the referred source, his presence in the eleven against the 'Partenopeos' would not have to peligrar.

The defender, once initiated the second half of the commitment in front of the group vigués, when it questioned him around how was physically, did the gesture of the thumb upwards, in signal that all is in apparent order. Even, the good physical state of the defender has corroborated it Xavi Hernández in the mixed zone pospartido aseverando: "Today there has not been lesionados. Neither Araujo neither Pedri are injured. They are well".

Ronald Araújo fulfilled his centenary in LaLiga

In spite of his prompt replacement, Ronald Araújo made history with the 45 minutes of action that saw in this day. The charrúa arrived to the hundred of parties in First Division with the FC Barcelona in LaLiga, remembering that it debuted with the elastic Barcelona under the orders of Ernesto Valverde on 6 October 2019, to his 20 years of age, and since has added a total of 138 commitments like culé, in which it has already a total of eight annotations and three assistances.

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The '4' of the club culé, in his recently fulfilled 100 parties in LaLiga, has gone out in the XI headline no less than 79 occasions, besides, the remaining meetings has added minutes going in like variant from the bench. In this order of ideas, the defender only has lost 30 clashes by injury and other four by cautions in the championship suspender belt. To this it would be necessary to add him the others 21 occasions in which it saw the party from the bank of acting.