Hansi Flick confirmed that Barcelona would rotate their team for their upcoming Laliga collision with Real Sociedad in the midst of concern about their packaged fixture schedule.
Sunday's collision with Sociedad Kickstarts a point of five games in 14 days before Barcelona, including their Champions League round of 16 draw with Benfica.
They are also confronted with title rivalen Atletico Madrid in their last league match of the month before the international break, hoping that they are still contrary to trophies.
The side of Flick enjoys an unbeaten run of 14 games about all the competitions, with their hope for winning Laliga, the Champions League and the Copa del Rey on the right track.
Barcelona will start with Sociedad at the top of the rankings this weekend, but level at points with Atletico, with Rivals Real Madrid only a different point behind.
“There are many things going on this season and I have changed the training sessions,” said Flick.
“In other matches, such as the (Copa del Rey) One against Valencia, we are hardly rested and the team did great. We have to concentrate at stake.
“There are no apologies … The calendar doesn't give us much more options. It is something that has an impact.”
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Barcelona comes with Sociedad with enormous confidence in their match and has won five consecutive LaLiga matches for the second time this season.
They have also scored in each of their last 37 home games against Sociedad in Laliga (a total of 87 goals), their second longest home scores against the same opponent in the history of the competition.
But their defensive fragarities have been shown in recent weeks, despite the fact that they have admitted only 25 goals in LaLiga this season, the fourth best record in the division.
Barcelona gave four goals in their entertaining 4-4 draw in their Copa del Rey First-Leg Semi-Final against Atletico in midweek, but Flick was not concerned.
“I am not worried about when we admit … we will start all over again. What we have to do is take the energy and decide how to play,” said Flick.
“We already saw the two goals against Atletico, but then we played a good game.
“We also invested a lot of energy at the end of the game. We have to do things as a team better; we know that.”
Flick also confirmed that Barcelona will be on Sunday without defender Andreas Christensen.
“Andreas was injured and we have to wait and see how serious it is. Let's hope it's not. He retired early. We have very good defenders.
“Ronald (Araujo) came in after an injury and is doing very well. He has everything to reach very high.”
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