They, along with Eric Abidal, whose recovery continues, and Dos Santos, who has just recovered from an injury, are the only unfit Barça players during this weekend's league programme.
On Friday David Villa got the all-clear from the hospital after getting over an attack of renal colic which has left him out of action for the entire week. He went into hospital in Barcelona on Monday and was discharged on Wednesday, but on Thursday he had to go back to hospital as the discomfort had not stopped. But yesterday's OK is definitive, and Villa, after leaving the hospital, was in the gym at the Ciudad Deportiva in Sant Joan Despí. As long as there are no setbacks, Villa has time to recover completely and will travel to Milan on Tuesday with the rest of the team. Another player who could reappear in the Champions League game is Xavi, who on Friday trained with the rest of the team for the first time since his injury and was perfectly fine for almost all the session. As with Villa, the important thing for him is that there is still time, and Roura has hinted that if Xavi is fit enough, he might well make his comeback at San Siro: "this short period out of action is not going to affect him. He is a player with a lot of experience, and has an instinctive and automatic knowledge of the team's moves".
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