already hitting them pretty hard, getting away with mascherano as a central defender at the moment watching the game last night, and busquets (?sp) iirc.
think they've been lucky the past couple of seasons with next to no injuries to there main players, or only minor niggles/little time out.
not sure what other injuries they have at the moment, know puyol/pique are coming back from injuries, abidal was taken off last night as a pre caution.
Puyol only played 17 league games, missed most of the season really(Barca normally play 60 odd games at least), PIque missed a decent number, Abidal had cancer and missed 20-30% of the season, Maxwell missed half the season....
didn't do to badly last season from what I remember
It is quite funny because of how few injuries they had till around xmas last year, for 3-4 seasons before that.
They've got cover, they've got defenders, they've got midfielders, we just haven't seen much of them, doesn't mean they aren't good.
They haven't dropped points this season due to injuries, and very few last season, they've still spanked loads of games, the points they've dropped this season were due to a poor setup, Alves in midfield, Valencia had chance after chance after chance, dropped him back to a proper back 4 and then they dominated the second half.
ALl their injuries are doing is making it slightly harder to win every single game, they are still pretty much winning every single game. Puyol, PIque, Abidal will all likely play a lot more this season than last, so if they can win everything last season, they'll have no real issues this season.
