The five first team players available, along with Pique, Adriano, and Afellay, (who did some work with the group), doing recovery work away from the main group, trained with the B team, who are preparing for their game on Saturday against Cartagena.

The session, which started at 9.30 at the Ciudad Deportiva Joan Gamper, was not attended by Josep Guardiola, who is travelling to Nyon today to attend the 13th Managers Forum, organized by UEFA, which will take place on Thursday September 1st.

The first team will return to training on Thursday, also at 9.30, at the Joan Gamper training ground.