Many heartbeats in Catalonia were skipped on Thursday evening when they sink star defender Pau Cubarsi on the floor on Thursday evening in Rotterdam. The 18-year-old central defender is furious this year in the side of Hansi Flick, but was injured for Spain and was removed for Dean Huijsen after 41 minutes.
Cubarsi came out with an ankle knock and Spain manager Luis de la Fuente faciled the fears in Can Barca and said it was a small problem, and his replacement was a provisional measure. He confirmed that “he will be there on Sunday.”
According to the sport, that is indeed the case, and Cubarsi goes with La Roja to Valencia for the second stage of their quarterfinals of the Nations League, nice and capable of 2-2. Yet Mario Gila van Lazio was called upon by De La Fuente to make the short trip from Rome to Valencia. For the Dutch collision, De la Fuente did not include Ferran Torres, Raul Asencio or Yeremy Pino in the MatchDay team, and Gila can also end up on the outside.
The Catalan says that the plan is that Cubarsi is in the starting line-up in Mestalla, but that the La Fuente can decide to risk him and leave him outside the starting line-up. How the teenage defender feels and the progress of any discomfort will determine how they continue.
Of course this only comes a week before Barcelona will compete against Osasuna in their rear -up match next Thursday evening. Flick will already be forced in adjustments, with Raphinha and Ronald Araujo probably miss the collision because of their international obligations on Tuesday with Uruguay and Brazil. Cubarsi's regular partner Inigo Martinez also missed the Spain trip through a knee bat, and is also a doubt, making Eric Garcia and Andreas Christensen compete for a few minutes.
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