Barcelona manager Xavi Hernández faces a major headache over the next month or so as he tries to put together a quality midfield without two key pieces in Pedri and Frenkie de Jong who will both miss several weeks with injuries suffered against Athletic Bilbao last week.
The season-ending injury to Gavi and the poor performances of Oriol Romeu have left only Ilkay Gündogan and Fermín López as quality pieces in the center of the park, and the coach knows he will have to continue thinking outside the box to try and play well in midfield.
He’s already converted center-back Andreas Christensen to a holding midfielder since last month, and Xavi plans to experiment with other players in midfield as he told reporters in a press conference on Thursday.