Jeremy Mathieu

[barcanuck]

Fucking Deschamps why do you even need to call Jeremy up. Or is it all part of the plan for Zidane.

 

[BarçaBarça]

Is that the kind of injury where you don't know if the player will reach former level again?

 

[ThwiX]

FRA doctors told Mathieu last night that he'll probably need surgery after his knee injury. New tests in Barcelona today. [md]

Afraid that we have seen the last of him for this season.

 

[Galning]

If it's his meniscus I doubt he'll return to his former level at his age.

 

[blaugrana1987]

Fuck. As much as i criticize him, when he starts a match as CB he is generally very good. FFS now we have to rely on Vermaleen.

 

[hardyboy]

He was a good back-up... Now Masch and Pique will have to play almost every minute till the end of the season.

 

[Kuchi]

Like the song says, you don't know what you got till it's gone

Hope he'll make the Euro, he earned his spot this 2 years.

 

[Messi983]

He was a good back-up... Now Masch and Pique will have to play almost every minute till the end of the season.

I think with La Liga almost won we can and should rotate Bartra and Vermaelen in league games to get them ready if (god forbid) one of Masche and Pique also get injured/suspended and we would also need to play them in CL. But they are both Barça players so I believe they'll do good when they get their chance to play.

 

[God Serena]

So this gives us two problems:

1) Our only decent backup CB is now on the shelf, probably for the season. We now have to rely on Bartra or Vermaelen. I personally prefer Bartra out of the two, as he's at least played well for us in the past.

2) As bad as he is at LB, he's at least capable of filling that role. When Alba is injured we'll now have to rely on Adriano, who really shouldn't ever play for us if we want to win, but then again, Adriano is also injured, so we don't actually have a backup for Alba, who, by the way, also got injured during internationals. Oh, joy.

So what do we do? Play Vermaelen as LB or give Juan Camara another chance at LB? Where is Grimaldo? ()

 

[Messi983]

Play when Alba is unavailable.

 

[impeh]

New tests today have confirmed that Mathieu has a knee injury. He'll have to undergo surgery and could be out for 5 months.

 

[Vlom]

Arghh ... this sucks honestly

 

[hardyboy]

Anims Mathieu

 

[Ghostmaster]

ffs why he was even called up for NT. I trust Vermaelen as sub though, he had that one horrible game against Malaga, but was pretty solid at the start of the season.

 

[khaled_a_d]

He was a good back-up... Now Masch and Pique will have to play almost every minute till the end of the season.

Considering our comfortable position in the league ,we will be able to give them enough rest .the bigger problem if Alba got any injury b4 CL game or CDR final

ffs why he was even called up for NT. I trust Vermaelen as sub though, he had that one horrible game against Malaga, but was pretty solid at the start of the season.

Has he been "pretty solid" since the start of the season though?