Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 2:29 p.m.
Bad news for Barcelona, for its coach Hansi Flick and especially for Ansu Fati, who has broken down again and cannot lift his head. The striker, trained at La Masia and loaned last year to Brighton, suffered a tear in the femoral biceps of his right leg during the morning training that the Barça team carried out this morning at the Joan Gamper Sports City and will be out for approximately a month. low.
This is the second injury that Ansu Fati has suffered this season. The first, during the preseason, plantar fasciitis in his right foot that prevented him from traveling with the rest of the expedition to the tour of the United States and caused him to miss the first five days of LaLiga. It took him a month to debut, which made him acquire the form with a certain disadvantage compared to his teammates. In fact, he is the fourth player with the fewest minutes in the Blaugrana squad (158), only surpassing Gavi (48), Christensen (26) and Andrés Cuenca (6). He has only started once, against Sevilla, and his numbers are poor, with no goals or assists.
If the Catalan entity’s own forecasts are met and there are no relapses or setbacks in the recovery, Ansu Fati will be absent for a minimum of six games: against Celta, Las Palmas, Mallorca and Betis in the League and against Brest and Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.
Braked stroke
Just when he was beginning to see the light and it seemed that he had already left behind the string of injuries, the young 22-year-old forward has once again suffered terrible news that only aggravates his particular ordeal. The succession of problems worries the player and also Barça, who would welcome his departure in the winter market to make money and, according to some information, he was in negotiations with the Turkish Fenerbahce.
This is not the first time that Ansu Fati has broken his biceps femoris, although on the previous occasion the diagnosis was much more serious as the proximal tendon was also affected. Given what we have seen, his decision not to have surgery was a mistake, since it extended his recovery for almost a year and made it difficult for the forward of Bisauguinean origin to progress in his career. A career that had already been cut short two years earlier due to a serious knee injury that made him undergo surgery up to four times.
The number of patients in the Barça infirmary increases, with eight casualties already in the team led by Flick: goalkeeper Ter Stegen, defenders Christensen and Araujo, midfielder Marc Bernal and forwards Ferran Torres, Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal and the aforementioned Ansu Fati.
