Barça will have two absences in San Mamés . Of course, one much more prominent than another. On the one hand, Ernesto Valverde's team will not be able to count on the services of a Leo Messi who missed the tour of the United States because of a sore lesion in his right leg. On the other, neither will be one of the last signings: Net . The goalkeeper suffers a fracture in the scaphoid of the left hand, this same Tuesday he has to go through the operating room and could be between five and six weeks off.

Net was injured in the warm-up of the second game against Naples and, until then, had many minutes. Messi, on the other hand, suffered his fibrillar rupture on his first day of training and, therefore, has not yet been able to play a single match with the Barça team. The Argentine, yes, was the great protagonist of the Gamper . There he repeated the promise he made last year: bring the Champions back to Camp Nou. Against Athletic, Luis Suarez, Ousmane Dembélé and one of the new ones, Antoine Griezmann, will be in principle responsible for forming the Barcelona attack, while still looking for a possible exit for a Philippe Coutinho that would have even less room if, finally, Neymar returns.

In the goal, meanwhile, there is no doubt: Marc-André ter Stegen is Valverde's first choice. Net showed that he can perfectly handle the role that Jasper Cillessen played: cover the back of the German. Something that, however, will not be able to do during the next few weeks, in which up to six games could be lost: the top five in the League and the Barça premiere in the Champions League. The person in charge of taking over will be the young Iñaki Peña, who did not play a single minute in the Barcelona preseason.

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