Ronald Koeman gives Barça's Villarreal starters the day off

Ronald Koeman gives Barça's Villarreal starters the day off

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Barcelona are preparing for Thursday's trip to Celta Vigo in La Liga

Barcelona trained at the Ciudad Deportiva Joan Gamper on Tuesday morning but were without the large bulk of their squad, who had been given the day off. 

Barça coach Ronald Koeman instead worked with the players that had not started against Villarreal, with a couple of exceptions in Neto and Ansu Fati. 

Neto, Iñaki Peña, Arnau Tenas, Aleñá, Dembélé, Rafinha, Pedri, Braithwaite, Ansu Fati, Riqui Puig, Konrad, Araujo and Mingo all worked under the Dutch coach.

However, Messi, Griezmann, Piqué, Alba, Busquets, Sergi Roberto, Lenglet, De Jong, Coutinho and Pjanic were not involved, although they did turn up for their PCR tests ahead of Thursday's game against Celta Vigo. 

Barça's trip to Balaidos is a potential banana skin given recent results there. It's followed by a home game against Sevilla on Sunday at Camp Nou. 

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