The midweek result brought both insult and injury for FC Barcelona. The Blaugranes played Club Brugge to a 3-3 stalemate on Wednesday night, an outcome that felt like a loss to much of Barca’s supporter base. They’ll move on quickly, with a trip to Celta Vigo next on the docket, in the La Liga competition.
So that’s the insult portion. As for the injury component, well, Eric Garcia suffered a serious face injury in that match.
FC Barcelona at Celta Vigo FYIs
Kick: Sunday Nov 10, Balaidos, Vigo, Spain
Google Result Probability Barcelona 58% Draw 21% Celta Vigo 21%
La Liga Standings: Barcelona, 2nd 25 pts Celta Vigo 12th, 13 pts
It is suspected that he has a broken nose, so he’ll obviously miss out here on the weekend. Beyond that, we’ll see after the November international break.
He’ll now join the rest of the Blaugranes injury absentees, a list which currently consists of Marc-Andre ter Stegen (back), Raphinha (hamstring), Pedri (also a hamstring injury) and Gavi (knee).
So with that all said, let’s just move on to the first team prediction.
Barcelona Predicted Starting XI at Celta Vigo
Wojciech Szczesny; Jules Kounde, Ronald Araujo, Pau Cubarsi, Alejandro Balde; Marc Casado, Frenkie De Jong; Lamine Yamal, Fermin Lopez, Marcus Rashford; Ferran Torres
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