DBasia.news – Injuries seemed unable to move away from French player, Ousmane Dembele. He returned to injury (hamstring) and was confirmed absent for a month defending Barcelona.
As is known, Dembele’s injury was found after he played a match against Olympique Lyon in the 2018/19 Champions League competition. At that time, the French player was actually able to show his strength when included by Ernersto Valverde in the 70th minute, by contributing one goal.
However, Dembele actually played with injury conditions. This was also confirmed by Valverde. The former coach of Athletic Bilbao, has indeed taken the risk to enter the fourth most expensive player in the world.
“He was still injured. However, in my opinion the match against Lyon was important, so I decided to play him,” Valverde was quoted as saying in the Goal.
“Dembele finally got his minutes of play, and has a little problem. At present, we hope he has returned within the next three weeks. We have taken risks, and now we have to lose him,” he concluded.
The absence of Dembele, actually gave an opportunity for Philippe Coutinho to prove to the Camp Nou public that he could also become one of Barcelona’s mainstay players.