OMNISPORT 

Barcelona has confirmed that Jordi Alba faces a fortnight on the sidelines due to a hamstring injury, leaving the left back facing a race against time to make the start of the club's La Liga title defense.

Luis Enrique's side gets its league campaign under way at Athletic Bilbao on Aug. 23, by which time the team will have played the Basque club twice in the Supercopa de Espana.

However, Alba looks likely to miss all three of those games due to the injury sustained in Wednesday's friendly against Roma.

Barca ran out a 3-0 winner at Camp Nou thanks to goals from Neymar, Ivan Rakitic and Lionel Messi – who was perhaps fortunate to escape sanction for an apparent headbutt on Roma defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa.