Three more positives at Barça: Coutinho, Dest and Abde

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The outbreak in Barça does not stop. Up to 10 players have tested positive for coronavirus in the past three days. Lenglet, Alves, Jordi Alba and Balde were the first to be infected. Later, Dembélé, Umtiti and Gavi. And this Thursday, the Barça club has announced three more: Dest, Coutinho and Abde, which places Xavi in ​​a delicate situation for the league duel next Sunday in Mallorca.

“The players are in good health and are isolated in their homes,” Barça reported in the medical statement where they revealed the infections of Dest, Coutinho and Abde. “The club has informed the competent authorities & rdquor ;, it states in that note.

18 casualties for Xavi

The situation is of absolute precariousness because Xavi could not count, in addition, with two sanctioned players: Busquets and Gavi, the young Andalusian being also on leave for testing positive. And the coach had six injured: Sergi Roberto, Braithwaite, Dest, now also infected, Memphis, Pedri and Ansu Fati.

That leaves the coach with very little room for maneuver, also conditioned by the regulations of the reserve team players to whom he can resort. Xavi has up to 18 casualties in the face of the Mallorca duel because he cannot count on the two winter signings as he is not registered or Dani Alves ni Ferran Torres. In the case of the former City forward, he has been injured since last October.

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The regulations indicate that you can only request a postponement of a match if you do not have five chips from the first team due to the pandemic. Barça currently has 10 players with first team numbers. There are two goalkeepers (Ter Stegen and Neto), four defenders (Piqué, Araujo, Mingueza and Eric García), three midfielders (Busquets, Riqui Puig and Frenkie de Jong) and a single forward (Luuk de Jong)



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