Every body: Barcelona’s injury alert remains serious, with 13 injuries already occurring this season

According to Daily Sports News, so far, 12 Barcelona players have been absent due to injuries, one more than the same period last season.

The article wrote that the Barcelona medical room is going through a difficult period, especially under the influence of the "FIFA virus". The long injury list troubles head coach Flick at a critical moment in the season.

Do you still remember the "bad November" that Flick mentioned at the press conference last season? Barcelona's poor performance at the time was partly due to frequent injuries.

Many people may feel that Barcelona's injuries are particularly serious this year. Indeed. In the Bernabeu match against Real Madrid, seven Barcelona players failed to make the squad due to injuries. However, if you compare Barcelona's injury situation this season to the same period last season, you will find some surprising similarities.

So far this season, Barcelona has recorded 13 injuries involving 12 players; 3 of them are traumatic (Joan Garcia, Marco Bernal and Garvey), 11 are muscle injuries (ter Stegen, Balde, De Jong, Fermin, Olmo, Ferran Torres, Rafinha, Yamal, Lewandowski twice and Christensen).

It should be noted that Marco Bernal's injury did not occur this year. He was injured last season and missed the first three games of this season. But obviously, the loss of the attacking trident has a great impact on Barcelona, ​​although it has not completely collapsed.

As of the end of October last season, this data was almost the same: 12 injuries distributed among 11 players. There were four traumatic injuries (ter Stegen, Marco Bernal, Garvey and De Jong) and one less muscular injury (Araujo, Eric Garcia twice, Christensen, Olmo, Fermin, Ansu Fati and Ferran).

Therefore, Barcelona has almost the same number of injuries last season and so far this season. This should not cause undue alarm. The consequences of the intense and high-intensity schedule will ultimately be borne by these players.

However, the physical condition parameters of the players received by Barcelona's technical team did worry Flick, because he found that the injury prevention work did not achieve the expected results. This feeling is heightened when you consider that the team was well rested over the summer and had extensive pre-season preparations.

Interestingly, during Flick's coaching period, only 4 players were not injured. They are Szczesny, Kubasi, Gerard Martin and Pedri. They all have their own special circumstances, but what they have in common is that they have not entered Barcelona's medical room from the beginning of the new season to October.

Szczesny missed one game due to a red card in the Spanish Super Cup final. Kubasi also missed the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals after receiving a red card in the first leg.

Gerard Martin dislocated the fifth metacarpal bone of his right hand in the U21 European Cup against Slovakia in June, but this did not affect his participation in the entire preseason. In the end, Pedri only missed one game last season: against Valencia in January because of gastroenteritis.