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22.04.2010 11:58

All minds on Xerez

Vanessa Forns

Barça returned to training on Saturday with their attention now focused on the next League outing against Xerez. The whole squad trained apart from Iniesta.

After playing Inter Milan and having a day off, Josep Guardiola’s side got back to work at the Ciutat Esportiva today at 11.00. Only a cloudy morning, the only absentee was the injured Andrés Iniesta.

First of three

This was the first of three training sessions for FC Barcelona before Saturday’s game at the Camp Nou, a key encounter with just five games left to play. They will train again on Friday and then again on Saturday morning, as is the norm for home matches, when the session is scheduled for 12.00.

League the priority

So, for the time being, the team need to put both the midweek trip to Milan and next week’s return fixture behind them and get focused instead on the domestic championship, where they need to defend a slender one-point advantage on Real Madrid.