11/23/2023 Act. at 20:04 CET
FC Barcelona will play this Saturday (2:00 p.m.) in Vallecas the first game of many – the entire season – that he will have to face in Gavi. The one from Los Palacios will undergo surgery next Tuesday after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and with involvement of the external meniscus.
Starting from the basis that a footballer with Gavi’s characteristics is irreplaceable, a series of candidates are being considered to make up for his absence. In the short term, before the winter market opens, Xavi Hernández has to look either at his own squad – Fermín López is the best placed – or at the reserve team.
Xavi can pull the reserve team
At Barça Atlètic, which Rafa Márquez has in promotion play-off positions, there are interiors, such as Unai Hernández or Aleix Garrido, who can act as Gavi.
And there is Marc Casadó, whose natural position is the pivot and is a footballer with many numbers that Xavi Hernández gives him a field in the center of the field. Furthermore, the Terrassa coach highly values his versatility and that he can also play on the right side.
It cannot be like this this Saturday to travel to Vallecas. The reason is that Marc Casadó must serve a one-match suspension with the Barça reserve team, which will prevent him from captaining Barça Atlétic in Palamós against UE Cornellà, where the ‘greens’ play at home. He has seen five cards this season, the last of them in León.
But this sanction for the accumulation of cards also deprives him of being able to be called up by Xavi Hernández for the Vallecas match, since He must first serve the suspension with his team, which is Barça Atlètic.
LaLiga, pending subject
Marc Casadó has 31 minutes in 2 official matches with the FC Barcelona first team and both, curiously, are in the Champions League. His official debut with Xavi Hernández as coach was in Plzen last season. He played 23 minutes in the Blaugranas’ 2-4 victory after replacing the injured Kessie.
This season premiered in MontjuÏc and also with another victory: 2-1 against Shakhtar Donetsk. The one from Sant Pere de Vilamajor replaced Fermín López in the 82nd minute.
Marc Casadó has been mentioned by Xavi in all four games of this edition of the Champions League, and in 8 of the 13 games played in the League, although without minutes in the regularity competition. He is, therefore, a regular in the calls of the Egarense technician.
2023-11-23 17:59:35
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