{"id":1300,"date":"2026-09-05T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:58:08","slug":"hansi-flick-forced-to-leave-out-one-barcelona-first-team-player-against-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Hansi Flick forced to leave out one Barcelona first-team player against Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/flick-debera-primer-descarte-temporada-133957226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">SPORT<\/a>, the return of Gavi and Gabriel Jesus has created an unusual situation for Flick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Both players have now <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/double-boost-for-barcelona-as-injured-star-new-signing-train-with-group-ahead-of-valencia-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">returned to full group training<\/a> and are considered fit enough to be involved, leaving the Barcelona manager with one difficult decision to make before submitting his squad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The positive injury news has therefore brought an unexpected headache. Barcelona finally have greater depth, but <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> regulations mean one player must miss out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Balde could be sacrificed for the Valencia clash. (Photo by Daniela Porcelli\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The gradual recovery of players has allowed the level of demand in the daily training of the squad to be raised, offering the coaching staff a wide range of resources to plan the matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As a result, Flick faces a first \u2018problem\u2019 in making the squad for this clash against Valencia: he has 24 players available and can only register 23 in the official list, which is the maximum limit allowed by La Liga regulations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As per the outlet, Alejandro Balde and Brian Farinas are among the players who could miss out as Barcelona prepare for another important La Liga fixture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It is worth remembering that on the first matchday against Elche, Balde was already left out, but on that occasion it was due to a purely technical decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Or it could be Brian Farinas. (Photo by Timothy Rogers\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The coach considered that the full-back was not focused enough, as he explained transparently in a press conference.\u00a0 This time, though, the circumstances are entirely different.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Balde has subsequently been included in the next two matchday squads, although he has not played any minutes in La Liga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At the same time, Brian Farinas is also in the equation, meaning Flick must weigh his options across the squad before deciding who stays behind.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/hansi-flick-forced-to-leave-out-one-barcelona-first-team-player-against-valencia-43404915\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to SPORT, the return of Gavi and Gabriel Jesus has created an unusual situation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434049153Fdate2026-09-05.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}