After an injury drenched year, and a torrid start to his Barça career, Thomas Vermaelen finally seems to be injury free. Whether he’ll relapse, or get a new injury remains to be seen. In the meantime, Barça's roster is back to full strength.
With Real Madrid beaten, Barça enter a critical month, one packed with intense games. It’s safe to assume that the players will need to be in top form to win all of these games. The outcome of this month sees us on a good platform to win all the trophies set before us, or it sees us lose everything. Playing Manchester City and Real Madrid was just beginning of a grueling few weeks, in which we play Sevilla at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, an in form Valencia at the Camp Nou, and Paris Saint-Germain both home and away for a place in the Semifinals of Champions League. Excluding the Copa Del Ray final and the UEFA Champions League games past our PSG tie, here is Barça's schedule for the rest of the season.
Schedule: Remaining Barcelona games this season #fcblive [via @safwanaf] http://ift.tt/1D0SzPo
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All of these high profile games have the potential to be season deciders, and Lucho will probably implement his famous rotation policy, or infamous, depending on how you see things. One thing is for certain, Enrique’s rotations earlier in the season greatly helped the team’s fitness in the later stages of the season. Now, with Vermaelen finally being injury free, Lucho can hand Thomas his debut while simultaneously adding more competition in the CB position. Vermaelen was a doubt for this season. It seemed that his recovery would take the entire season, and the possibility of him being injury free was questionable at best. Now, however, Thomas has made a quick recovery after getting surgery allowing him to possibly get his debut in the coming weeks. Ovara, Vermaelen’s surgeon, had this to say on his recovery.
Orava (surgeon Vermaelen): "His thigh injury is in the past now. He has totally recovered and he will be able to play in one week." [rac1]
— barcastuff (@barcastuff) March 25, 2015
Pictures: Vermaelen during first group training after operation #fcblive [fcb] http://ift.tt/1D0SBXE
— barcastuff (@barcastuff) March 26, 2015
Since playing Sevilla away and facing Valencia are rather hard fixtures, it might be possible to see Thomas make his debut in the coming weeks, possibly against the likes of Almeria, with all due respect. Barça face off against Almeria at the Camp Nou in three weeks time, making it an excellent fixture for Vermaelen to be eased back into the first team, if he is fully fit by then.
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