5 injuries that affected Barcelona the most this season

Barcelona suffered a lot this season due to injuries to key players. Actually, no fewer than 17 first-team players have suffered injuries this term.

How can a club win anything with such an Injury record?

Here's a look at the five players whose injuries, at one point during the season, badly affected the team.

Dembele

Ousmane Dembele did not start the season with Barcelona due to the injury he picked up at the Euros last year.

He missed 14 games due to a knee problem and returned to miss 4 more games due to muscle problems and Covid.

Since he's been fit for nearly 5 months, he's supplied 11 assists and 2 goals.

How Ronald Koeman desperately needed Dembouz to help save his job - sadly the Frenchman just didn't recover on time to do that.

Fati

Everyone could see just how badly Ansu Fati had been missed after he returned from a 10-month injury lay-off to score against Levante.

Not long after that, he suffered another injury that ruled him out for four more months.

Barca would probably have been in a different position if Ansu didn't suffer so much this term.

Memphis

Memphis Depay picked up a muscle injury just when he was scoring fairly regularly for Barca - which is why he's still the club's leading scorer with 12 goals.

However, that hamstring injury last December stopped his run and he's still struggling to become the player he was when the season started.

Signing Aubameyang in January has really helped, but Barca suffered a lot without their leading marksman.

Aguero

Sergio Aguero arrived at Barcelona nursing an injury. When he was finally fit, he scored a great goal in El Clasico. Then the heart problem forced him to retire.

The Argentine remains a deadly finisher and the fact that Koeman couldn't use him for more than 4 league games is probably why his team lacked a cutting edge and fell far behind Real Madrid in the title race.

Pedri

Barcelona have won 32 out of the last 36 available points when Pedri has played. Without him they've lost their last 2 league games, winning 6 points from a possible 12. Pedri's underlying importance in this Barca squad cannot be overstated. Unfortunately, he's missed 33 games this season due to injury. What a sore miss!