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Riqui Puig has been left out of the call for the day of Barcelona for Saturday’s game against Alavés. Ronald Koeman’s team will travel to Mendizorroza without the 21-year-old, who has fallen out of favor this season.
The midfielder has played just three minutes in LaLiga Santander – in the 1-0 defeat against Getafe at the Alfonso Pérez Coliseum – without having taken the field against Villarreal, Celta de Vigo, Sevilla and Real Madrid.
During the summer, Koeman made it clear that the Barcelona youth squad would not enjoy regular first-team football at the Catalan club. Now, he has been excluded from the list of the Dutch coach called for his trip to Vitoria.
“It is a technical decision,” Koeman explained to the press on Friday when asked about Riqui Puig’s absence. “In various games at the beginning of the season, we took 23 players. For me, that’s too many.
“I think it is better to travel with a maximum of 20 or 21. So I prefer that there are players who are out [of the squad] who train very intensely so that, if I need them, they are fit enough to play. “
Barcelona’s itinerant party for Saturday’s game against Alavés is made up of Neto, Sergi Roberto, Junior Firpo, Clement Lenglet, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Miralem Pjanic, Frenkie de Jong, Sergino Dest, Carles Alena, Pedri , Antoine Griezmann, Lionel Messi, Francisco Trincao, Ousmane Dembele, Martin Braithwaite, Ansu Fati, Iñaki Pena, Konrad de la Fuente and Arnau Tenas.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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