Hansi Flick already has a plan for Ronald Araujo’s return to action for Barcelona | OneFootball

The next few weeks will be crucial for FC Barcelona if they want to maintain their best form. After having been outplayed by Real Sociedad in their last game before the international break, the Catalan giants will be looking to bounce back as soon as possible. However, it would definitely help if Barcelona could recover their injured players in time.

The likes of Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski are still in recovery, and the young winger is working hard to make it in time for the Celta Vigo game, even if it is as a substitute. However, there is another player whose return is apparently near, and he is now in the final stage of his recovery.

Ronald Araujo, the Uruguayan defender and captain of FC Barcelona, is already back on the grass and is training with a lot of intensity. However, it seems that Hansi Flick reportedly already has a plan in motion for Araujo’s return once he makes his way back to the official squad.

According to Mundo Deportivo, Flick hopes to have Araujo back before the end of the year and wants to take things slowly with him in terms of his participation, just as he did so effectively with Gavi before. In Araujo’s case, however, the player should be fully available by mid-December.

While most of the games during the first half of December may end up being too complicated for Hansi Flick to consider putting Araujo in, a home game at the Montjuic Stadium against Leganes could provide itself to be the perfect opportunity for the Uruguayan defender to feature more prominently.

Gradually, the player would adapt to the intensity that Flick demands of his team in any given match, and once the defender is able to match that, he will be a crucial addition to the German coach’s forces. Until then, however, two players have held their own in a way that exceeded all expectations.

Both Pau Cubarsi and Inigo Martinez, arguably the most effective pair at executing Hansi Flick’s special offside trap, have managed to deal with the likes of Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, and others so far already, and they deserve the attention and opportunities they have received so far and will continue to receive as well. Araujo, however, is also being brought up to speed on Hansi Flick’s rather unique offside trap combinations and strategies.