Messi and Coutinho, the great absent from Barça's evening training

Published:8/09/2020 - 21:21h

Updated:9/09/2020 - 01:52h

Leo Messi and Philippe Coutinho did not train this Tuesday afternoon in the double session that Koeman planned for his players. The Argentine and the Brazilian, with the technician's permission, only worked in the morning

The FC Barcelona follows with his tuned of face to the start of this next season. The Barcelona will debut in LaLiga against the Villarreal on 27 September in which it will be the day 3 of the championship. The culés, by his participation in the 'final to eight' of the Champions League in Lisbon, will begin later and will have to recover the first two days in another moment still for deciding.

Ronald Koeman works so that all the players arrive in his best moment to this start of competition and is squeezing to all the footballers from does more than a week. The Dutch, in fact, programmed a double session for this Tuesday and the footballers trained so much in the morning as in the afternoon. Nevertheless, in the training vespertino there were two remarkable absences.

Leo Messi and Philippe Coutinho did not work in the afternoon and remained resting home. It is necessary to remember that the Argentinian incorporated to the pre-season of the Barça this Monday, by what still is beginning his preparation. In the case of the Brazilian sucede practically the same, since hardly it carries four days exercising in the Ciutat Esportiva of Sant Joan Despí.

So much the rosarino like the one of Rio de Janeiro worked of individual form in the morning and completed his training with total normality. Koeman Has understood that the best for the two is not forcing the so prompt machine and therefore they will not go back to exercise until this Wednesday. Both will return in the morning to follow with his plan of training with the end to be able to be beside the rest of the group what before.

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The plan of Koeman with Messi and Coutinho

The trainer barcelonista has reserved an important paper for the two footballers, especially for the Argentinian. As it has filtered , the Dutch wants to play with a 4-2-3-1 in which the '10' split from the right as in his best times. The idea is to give him freedom so that it appear by the centre and can combine with all his mates and take advantage of his demoledoras diagonal and his big strike.

In the case of Coutinho, everything indicates that it goes to be one of the main candidates to occupy this place in the mediapunta, just by in front of the double pivote. The idea could be that it compete with the midfield player that arrive, that all indicates that it will be Georginio Wijnaldum. They would be two entirely opposite profiles, something that likes to Koeman, that wants to take out the best version of the international 'canarinho'.