Champions League<\/a> win at Newcastle, but was left on the bench.<\/p>\nBarca head coach Hansi Flick ordered his players to attend a 9.30am meeting on the day of the Getafe game, followed by an ‘activation session’ at 11am.<\/p>\n
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Rashford opened his Barca account with a stunning brace in a 2-1 Champions League win at Newcastle last week(Image: Michael Regan – UEFA\/UEFA via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Sources close to Rashford confirmed he did not arrive at the meeting until 9.32am which saw Flick enforce a disciplinary rule that meant he did not start the game.<\/p>\n
Flick instead started with a front three of Robert Lewandowski, Ferran Torres and Raphinha, as Barca ran out 3-0 winners at the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n
Barca boss Flick has a zero tolerance policy on lateness, with players regularly left out of the team for arriving late to training or meetings \u2013 even if only by a minute or two.<\/p>\n
Raphinha was dropped to the bench last weekend against Valencia for the same reason as Rashford, having arrived late for the activation session on the Sunday.<\/p>\n
Barca defender Jules Kounde and goalkeeper Inaki Pena, who now plays at Elche, have also fallen foul of Flick’s strict timekeeping in the past.<\/p>\n
Despite being dropped to the bench, Rashford came on at the break and impressed in the second-half, setting up Barca’s third goal for Dani Olmo.<\/p>\n
After a slow start at Barca, failing to score or assist in his first four appearances, Rashford has plundered two goals and two assists in his last three games.<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen if Rashford will be recalled to Barca’s starting line-up for Thursday’s trip to Real Oviedo in La Liga, following his latest transgression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd striker Marcus Rashford, on a season-long loan at Barca, was dropped for the weekend win at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[41693,748,393,4884,2465,423,103,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-443454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-barcelona-fc","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-united-fc","14":"tag-marcus-rashford","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115248426210991971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Marcus Rashford was reportedly disciplined by Barcelona boss Hansi Flick after being left out of the starting line-up on Sunday (Image: Clive Mason\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n