The defender of Barcelona, Jules Kounde, suffered a confirmed thigh injury against Inter during the Champions League on Wednesday evening.
Counds have developed a call for its immortal availability this season and plays 53 times for Barcelona and eight for France. The full -back had not missed a single game for club or country until he was rested against Mallorca for the victory La Liga last weekend.
But just 42 minutes after the 3: 3 draw with Inter, which caused the Catalans to be slightly disadvantaged before the return leg of the next week in Milan. Then he told reporters in the mixed zone: “I don’t feel good at all.”
A explanation by Barcelona on Thursday said that the tests, which had been carried out in the day, had resulted in a “distal thigh injury” in his left leg. The club did not offer a time frame for its likely recovery, but early reports indicated that it could miss it for about three weeks – most of the rest of the season.
In this scenario, Counde would probably be excluded from five games, including the second leg against Inter next Tuesday evening and a crunch clasico with Real Madrid five days later.
Barcelona has a 4-point lead in La Liga, but this home clasico is Madrid’s last big opportunity to deficit to one point and therefore only a single game. But should Hansi Flick’s victory, the title race, be almost mathematic in favor of Barca.
Counds could only return to the Athletic Club in San Mames for the last game of the domestic season on May 25th. If Barcelona had made it to the Champions League final, he would also be of crucial importance in Munich’s Allianz Arena on May 31.
In coound absence, Eric Garcia completed the first leg against Inter in the right -back. He was preferred to Ronald Araujo, who appeared at half -time instead of the fighting Gerard Martin. The local teenager Hector Fort is another option, but mostly undestected.
Alejandro Balde did not pass his fitness test against Inter, but is expected to return immediately, which will at least strengthen the left side of the back four.