Two Barça jewels compete for a position in eleven against Espanyol

Xavi Hernández will not have it easy in his debut as a new coach of FC Barcelona.The injuries have left Barça in a picture and the Egarense coach will not be able to count on several headlines.Some of them will be Ousmane Dembélé, Ansu Fati and Sergiño Dest, who will force the Mr. to improvise in several positions.The American is the one who has the most options to arrive at the derby against Espanyol this Saturday, but everything points out that doing so will begin the clash on the bench.

Therefore, without the option of placing at the end of the end right and without the French or the Hispanic-Guineano in Liza, the Terrassa coach must make an 'invention'.Memphis Depay, Luuk de Jong and Yusuf Demir are the only attackers of the first template that is available.Of these, Memphis will hold safely and it seems that Demir could have more options to be in the eleven than Luuk.

Sevilla's ex does not seem to fit too much with Xavi's style and it would be normal for the '9' to be Depay in the derby.That would make two holes left in the bands, since it is unlikely that the Catalan coach does not go out with a 4-3-3. Uno de esos huecos podría ser para Gavi​, que aunque como extremo está lejos de poder rendir a su mejor nivel, ya ha demostrado que puede ser un 'parche' en caso de urgencia.

The palaces has already played this season of extreme right, although it cannot be ruled out that Saturday does it on the left.That would most likely mean that Demir would leave the right, which is where he feels more comfortable by being able to throw diagonals towards his left leg.However, the Austrian is not the only one who aspires to ownership and from Barça B could upload another end to play above.

This is Abde Ezzalzouli, who debuted against Alavés and also had minutes against Celta a couple of weeks ago.The Moroccan is much more pure extreme than Yusuf and seems to be the style of a band player looking for Xavi.I could play both right and left and contribute verticality, speed and dribbling.He has trained during this break at the orders of the Egarense and his presence in the eleven would make Gavi to play on the right.

Ilias has few options to play

The Morocco seems to have even more chances of entering the initial alignment than Demir and that Luuk de Jong.However, everything can happen and it is even said that Ilias Akhomach, one of the great jewels of the Masia, could also have starting options.The young attacker's problem is that he was injured a week ago and several training has been lost.In a couple of days Xavi will have to decide and reveal all doubts.