Barcelona look set to face a weakened Dynamo Kiev side in their third Champions League group game on Wednesday at the Camp Nou.
Catalunya Radio and Sport both report the visitors could have up to 11 first-team players missing for the game mostly because of coronavirus.
There are eight players who are not scheduled to travel after testing positive, including first-choice goalkeeper Georgi Buschcan and back-up Denis Boyko.
Coach Mircea Lucescu is therefore expected to turn to third choice stopper Ruslan Neshcheret, who only turned 18 in January, for the game at the Camp Nou.
Neshcheret only made his debut for Dynamo Kiev at the weekend in their victory over Dnipro and has never played in the Champions League before.
Dynamo Kiev have done pretty well since Lucescu took charge in July and are unbeaten in nine domestic matches since he took charge, winning seven of those games.
Their only defeat under Lucescu came in their Champions League opener when they suffered a 2-0 reverse at home to Juventus.
Dynamo Kiev then looked set to pick up all three points against Ferencvaros after going 2-0 up but conceded a 90th minute equalizer to leave them with just a point from their first two games.
Barcelona have won both group games so far and will be big favorites to claim all three points again on Wednesday.
Yet it’s worth noting that Real Madrid hosted a Shakhtar Donetsk side without a host of players due to Covid-19 and were beaten 3-2 by their second-string.
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