Dani Olmo off injured against PSG: Barcelona fear adductor tear before the Clásico

Paris Saint-Germain beat Barcelona 4-2 at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday, on the third Champions League matchday. The Catalan evening went wrong inside the first half-hour: in a challenge with Vitinha, Dani Olmo clutched his left adductor, could not carry on, and gave way to Fermín López.

Per AS, whose Javier Miguel had the story on Tuesday night, the first signs point to a tear in the left adductor, with a scan in Barcelona on Wednesday to confirm it. Tribuna claims instead that tests have already confirmed severe damage. The club had said nothing by Wednesday morning: until it speaks, the word “tear” belongs to the media, not to the doctor.

The timetables doing the rounds draw the range: more than three weeks per José Álvarez on El Chiringuito, four to five weeks if the tear is confirmed for AS and Tribuna, anywhere from two to ten weeks depending on the grade for SI. “Dani Olmo will not be there against Real Madrid. The first tests say he is out for more than three weeks,” José Álvarez said. Olmo had already hurt his adductor in 2024-25, missing three weeks.

A Clásico without Olmo on Sunday?

Real Madrid visit the Camp Nou on Sunday at 21:00, matchday ten in LaLiga. Foot Mercato already writes the absence as a given, So Foot keeps it conditional, SI calls it “practically a done deal”. Hansi Flick would not go that far on Tuesday night: “Olmo? We’ll see. He took that hit and had some discomfort. We have to wait.”

Barcelona were not at full strength to start with: Koundé, Eric García and Christensen were already in the treatment room. For the punter, the lesson holds all weekend: the answer arrives on Wednesday with the scan and the club’s statement, not with Tuesday night’s first impressions. Taking a position on the Clásico before that verdict means betting on a diagnosis nobody has made yet.