Barcelona has had to regularly tackle injury problems during the course of the season, and they have now been hit with a new blow in the construction of the La Liga match against Real Sociedad in the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Company, where they will be without an important defender.
In the last 24 hours, reports have emerged for a possible injury to Andreas Christensen, who had just received the medical green light earlier this week after repairing a muscle problem. Unfortunately for Barcelona this news has now been confirmed by head coach Hansi Flick during his press conference before the game, according to MD.
“Christensen was injured in training and we will have to wait for how serious it is.”
It has been a miserable season for Christensen, who was expected to be a very important player for film. He only played 26 minutes, and they came during the opening weekend of the campaign against Valencia, because a few days later he was forced to undergo an operation to remedy an Achillespee problem that saw him out of operation for the next five months.
Christensen, who was associated with his moving in the summer, would return to the Barcelona Matchday Squad for competitions against Getafe, Benfica and Valencia in January, although he did not succeed in appearing before he had suffered the muscle injury that had been excluded from him earlier in the week, but now a recurrency was.
According to Diario, Christensen will be out for the next three weeks. It means that he will miss Sunday's game against La Real, as well as both legs of the Champions League round of 16 collision against Benfica. Moreover, he would not be able to appear against Osasuna and Atletico Madrid in La Liga luminaires.
Christensen would have been an option in the defense and midfield for Flick, but he now has to do without the Danish international.
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