Sunday’s training session

In preparation for Monday’s Liga match with Villarreal, the first team held their penultimate training session before the game on Sunday afternoon at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper. Four reserves players, namely Dos Santos, Bartra, Sergi Roberto and Cuenca, took part in the session.

The first team trained this afternoon with their minds focused on Monday’s game against Villarreal. In the session, which began at 19:00, four players from the reserves were added to strengthen the numbers: Jonathan Dos Santos, Marc Bartra, Sergi Roberto and Isaac Cuenca.

Both captain Carles Puyol and Maxwell worked with the group, while Gerard Piqué, Adriano Correia and Ibrahim Afellay continued their recovery work on field no. 2 of the Ciutat Esportiva.

For this season, the footballers who have played with Barça B, even if it’s on the same game day as the first team, can play with Barça. Before it was necessary for a minimum of 48 hours to pass before the player could play with the first team. From now on, any player that has featured two days before, one day before, or the same day with the reserves can play with the first team if Josep Guardiola see fits to call on the player.

Barça will hold their final training session before receiving Villarreal on Monday, at 11:30am at the Camp Nou, where the match will kick-off at 21:00.