The appointment causes an exodus in the Barça dressing room when the team was leading the League
Xavi will grant a few days of vacation to the players as they return. The team will start work on December 5
The FC Barcelona Leader of the League has reached the break motivated by the World Cup in Qatar. He has also done it outside the Champions League, dropped in the group stage by Bayern Munich and Inter Milan. Heads and tails for Xavi Hernández’s team. The coach, faced with the exodus of players caused by the World Cup – eight national teams have taken up to 16 players – is already thinking about returning to the competition.
The man from Egar and his team have everything calculated throughout the duration of the World Cup so that the return does not involve any uphill. for now, three players are already on vacation until December 5, date the team will return to work: Bellerin, Marcos Alonso and Iñaki Peña. Piqué, for his part, announced that he was hanging up his boots despite having a contract until June 2024.
Two other players with dynamics from the first team although with a subsidiary file, Balde and Pablo Torrehave been called up to the Spanish under-21 team —also Arnau Tenas—, which will face Japan in a friendly match that will take place in Seville on Friday 18. Balde, the next day, will start the vacation period. Paul Tower will join the subsidiary, which continues to compete in the League (First Federation, group 2).
two injured
The injured Kessie and Sergio Roberto They will continue with the planned plan. The Ivorian suffered an injury to the femoral biceps of his left thigh on November 1, in the Champions League match against Viktoria Plzen, and his return is scheduled for January 2023. The youth squad suffered a dislocated left shoulder in the duel against Athletic on October 23 and the withdrawal period was set at about six weeks.
Xavi knows that a good part of his credit is at stake this season. After modeling a template practically tailored to him (eight signings if the Cantabrian Pablo Torre is included), the Barcelona coach needs the endorsement of a title (La Liga) to continue building the Barça of the future. For this reason, it has been programming and preparing for a long time what will be the second part of an atypical season, which will take place between January and June 2023.
Calendar
As the FC Barcelona players concentrated with their respective national teams in Qatar are being eliminated, they will have a few days of rest before returning to the discipline of the first team, including those who can reach the final on December 18. Thus, Xavi will be recovering troops in the best possible conditions.
The Barça team will return to competition on the weekend of December 31, 2022 or January 1, 2023 (the date is yet to be confirmed). He will do so by receiving Espanyol at the Camp Nou in a match corresponding to the fifteenth day of the League. At home, the Barcelona team has already played seven games and has won six victories, all consecutive. They have only conceded one draw (Rayo Vallecano) in the opening match, but have not conceded any goals.