Xavi Hernández is having a stop for selections to forget. There are already five players who have been injured in the respective teams, Ronald Araújo being the most recent to contract an injury, after 40 seconds (!) on the field in Uruguay's friendly against Iran, recorded on Friday.
Araújo was even replaced and thus joins his teammates who had also been injured. Koundé, Ousmane Dembélé (France), Memphis Depay and Frenkie de Jong (Netherlands).
Furthermore, both Koundé and Depay have already been released and are on their way to Barcelona to start their respective recovery programmes. The AS newspaper even said that both players could be out for at least a month and will miss the matches against Mallorca, Celta, Real Madrid and Villarreal, in the league, and the double clash in the Champions League against Inter from Italy.