Barcelona have confirmed midfielder Fermin Lopez will miss round three weeks of motion after struggling a muscle harm in coaching.
The La Liga leaders are already getting ready for his or her Champions League opener with out large summer season signing Dani Olmo, who suffered a hamstring harm which is predicted to maintain him on the sidelines for round 5 weeks.
Fermin had missed the 4-1 win over Girona with a minor leg muscle harm picked up on worldwide obligation, however returned to coaching on Tuesday to supply a giant increase to Hansi Flick’s aspect, solely to limp out resulting from a difficulty together with his reverse leg.
“His estimated outing will probably be round three weeks,” Barcelona confirmed in a brief assertion.
Midfield is proving to be an actual headache space for Flick, whose choices within the centre of the pitch are extremely restricted. Pedri is the one senior choice out there alongside 21-year-olds Pablo Torre and Marc Casado. 16-year-old Guille Fernandez was an unused substitute on the weekend.
Frenkie de Jong and Gavi have each joined in components of workforce coaching over the previous few days however are nonetheless anticipated to be sidelined for a short time longer, whereas Marc Bernal’s season is already over after a nasty ACL harm.
A visit to Monaco awaits Barcelona on Thursday, earlier than their bid to proceed their good begin to the La Liga marketing campaign continues away at Villarreal on Sunday.