Christensen is medically cleared and could return to play after six months

FC Barcelona centre-back Andreas Christensen has been given the all-clear for his right soleus injury, the Catalan club announced on Wednesday. The Danish international, who had been out since 27 January, had been training at the same pace as his teammates for a week.

The muscle injury prevented him from making a comeback for Hansi Flick's team after recovering on January 17 from a tendinopathy in the left Achilles tendon that the player suffered at the beginning of the season. The 28-year-old Nordic player played his last match on August 17 against Valencia, in the first match of the League.

Christensen's return was the main novelty in the recovery and compensation training that the first team of the Blaugrana team carried out at the Ciudad Deportiva Joan Gamper after the draw (4-4) against Atlético de Madrid in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey played this Tuesday.

With the Dane's return, Flick now has a surplus of centre-backs. A total of five players, in addition to Koundé, who has already been integrated as a full-back, can occupy the centre of defence. The Barcelona squad has the starters Pau Cubarsí and Iñigo Martínez plus the substitutes Araújo, Eric García and now Christensen.