In Barcelona's training session on Friday morning, Miralem Pjanic and Sergino Dest were the two players to return to training while Martin Braithwaite suffered a relapse of his injury. The striker had trained in the previous session, but missed this one.
Two pieces of good news and one piece of bad news for Barca against Alaves. The good news is that Pjanic and Dest are back. After missing the Copa del Rey semi-final against Sevilla, they are back in the group. The bad news is that Braithwaite has suffered a relapse of his right leg strain.
The striker is not in the squad to face Sevilla either. Everything seemed to indicate that he was going to be back for the list of players for the league game with Alaves. He trained normally on Thursday, but he did not train on Friday.
Barcelona themselves shared a live video of the training session. You could see Barca carrying out training exercises as well as touching the ball. The training session was the usual one conducted by the Dutchman.
The reason why Pjanic and Dest were left out was being of a left foot injury and muscle problems in his right leg respectively. They are not at all serious and they have now recovered. Koeman will be able to play them against Alaves.