The absence of the internationals and no midweek match mean that club technical staff have drawn up a specific training plan for this week with the highlight being a practice match on Wednesday against Barça B.
After a month in which the first team has played two matches a week between the League and the
Spanish Cup, things will ease off a bit over the next fortnight.
Tuesday, double session; Wednesday, match
After the victory against Osasuna, Frank Rijkaard has given his players this Monday off. The
squad will be back training on Tuesday in a double session in the morning and the evening (11 am
and 6 pm).
10 members of the squad will be missing on Tuesday and Wednesday as they will be leaving soon to join their national
sides to play friendly matches.
For the rest of the Barça players the coaching staff have drawn up a practice game on
Wednesday at 11.30 am in the Miniestadi against Barça B. As on previous occasions this season, the
idea behind the game is to make sure that players who are used to playing every three or four days
don’t lose match fitness.
Internationals back on Thursday
With the return of the internationals the whole team will be back training on Thursday
starting at 6 pm to get ready for the match against Sevilla on Saturday. The final pre-game session
will be behind closed doors at 11 am on Friday and Rijkaard will announce his squad later on. That
afternoon Barça will travel to Seville where on Saturday at 10 pm they will play in the Sánchez
Pizjuán.
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Midweek games are back with Celtic-FCB
Barça won’t play another midweek game until Wednesday 20 February when they take on Celtic in
the first leg of the last 16 in the Champions League. The following week there is the first leg of
the Spanish Cup semi-final against Valencia, while in the first week in March the return leg of the
Champions League tie with Celtic will be played in the Camp Nou.