Ronald Araújo was the great novelty in the morning session this Friday. The Uruguayan central defender, who suffered an overload in the abductor of his left leg during the last Clásico that prevented him from traveling with his team, wanted to test sensations ‘in situ’ to find out if he could be available or not for the match against Elche. In principle, if there is no setback, the Uruguayan international would be discharged and would enter the call, as we already anticipated in AS a week ago.
A list, by the way, that will have many notable absencesas to the injured Ousmane Dembélé, Pedri, Andreas Christensen and Frenkie de Jong, is also added Raphinha, sanctioned.
Thus, Xavi will have to use players from the subsidiary to complete the call-up, with the presence of Ángel Alarcón, Marc Casadó, Álex Garrido and Estanis Pedrola, who have been exercising with the group this week.
There is no doubt that ahead of the game against Elche, and taking into account that the Cup Clásico is just around the corner, some not so usual players will have an opportunity to vindicate themselves. We are talking about Jordi Alba, Ansu Fati, Eric Garcia, Franck Kessié or Ferran Torres, among others.
