{"id":65300,"date":"2026-08-03T17:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/65300\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:59:59","slug":"3-pieces-of-good-news-to-cheer-flick-at-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/65300\/","title":{"rendered":"3 pieces of good news to cheer Flick at Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona wrapped up their preparatory camp in England under Hansi Flick, forced to rejig the programme after the friendly against Preston North End fell through.<\/p>\n

The newspaper “Sport<\/a>” reported that Flick received three pieces of good news concerning the trio of Ronald Araujo, Raphinha and Fermin Lopez.<\/p>\n

With Preston off, the Catalans staged an internal training match instead. Araujo, Raphinha and Fermin Lopez all took part.<\/p>\n

Kick-off came just before twelve noon Central European Time. The game ran over three periods, each lasting 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

The first team lined up with Szczesny, Xavi Espart, Christensen, Gerard Martin, Jofre Torrents, Marc Bernal, Casado, Aurian Gorin, Adjei, Ibrahima Toncara and Alex Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

Making up the second team were Iker Rodriguez, Hector Fort, Araujo, Cortes, Bisker, Guille Fernandez, Brian Farinas, Fermin, Bardaji, Toni Fernandez and Raphinha.<\/p>\n

Seeing Araujo, Raphinha and Fermin slot naturally into the session is welcome news for Flick, with all three pushing on through their rehabilitation programmes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One question lingers. Will Araujo or Raphinha be fit for the triangular tournament in the Italian city of Udine on 8 August, or will their return wait until the Joan Gamper Cup clash with Egypt’s Al Ahly on the 19th of this month, as looks the case with Fermin?<\/p>\n

Over the first 15 minutes the media were allowed to watch, the match finished 1-1. Xavi Espart and Fermin Lopez grabbed the goals, while sporting director Deco followed the session closely alongside Bojan Krkic and Alejandro Etxeberria.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Frenkie de Jong was there too, working through his individual programme to recover from a knee injury before heading down onto the pitch to watch his teammates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona wrapped up their preparatory camp in England under Hansi Flick, forced to rejig the programme after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,3368,186,85,24976,94],"class_list":["post-65300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-f-lopez","tag-h-flick","tag-laliga","tag-r-araujo","tag-raphinha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}