After the painful win (0-1) in Bilbao, Barça have already set to work, considering the league classic they will play against Madrid at the Camp Nou next Sunday. It’s a championship-defining game as Xavi’s team manages to maintain a nine-point lead once again sustained by defensive ferocity. Ter StegenThe one who has 19 days with clean sheets in 25 days.
AND Xavi The week starts with good news because Pedri attended training with the group. He didn’t complete the entire session, but the canary is in the final stages of recovering from a muscle injury he suffered almost a month ago.
The coach is confident that he can count on himself against Madrid, which is something more complicated, but the presence of Dembélé who was injured at Montilivi.
Pedri fell in the first half of his duel with United at Camp Nou after suffering “an injury to the rectus femoris of the right thigh”. And both Xavi and the football player himself did not want to push, both following medical advice, to avoid a new relapse.
Despite being knocked out at Old Trafford in the Europa League, the team survived the absence of their most talented midfielder.
Six games without Canaries: 4 wins, 2 losses
However, Barça won the first leg of the cup semi-finals 0-1 at the Bernabéu. Canarian lost six games due to this muscle problem and his absence was confirmed to be worthwhile: four wins (2-0 against Cádiz, 0-1 against Madrid, 1-0 against Valencia and 0-1 against Athletic) and two back-to-back losses (2-1 with United and 1-0 at Almería), something that has never happened to Xavi’s team this season.