Hansi Flick holds training session with 16 Barcelona players absent | OneFootball

La Liga champions Barcelona returned to training on Tuesday with a threadbare squad of players.

This comes owing to a combination of injuries, and international commitments.

Barcelona are of course fresh off an outing to forget this past weekend, culminating in their surrendering of table-topping status in the Spanish top-flight.

After making the trip to Andalusia for a meeting with Sevilla, the Blaugrana found themselves condemned to the wrong side of a 4-1 result.

Following as much, Hansi Flick was then forced to bid farewell to a large chunk of his squad, who spread across Europe to link up with their respective national teams.

On Tuesday, Barca in turn trained without any of Pau Cubarsí, Pedri, Ferran Torres, Dani Olmo, Frenkie de Jong, Jules Koundé, Andreas Christensen, Robert Lewandowski, Roony Bardghji or Marcus Rashford.

Also absent, meanwhile, were the injured Marc-André ter Stegen, Joan García, Gavi, Fermín López, Raphinha, and Lamine Yamal.

Conor Laird – GSFN