Bardghji faces Barcelona's next LaLiga match at one of his most delicate moments since arriving at Camp Nou. After a promising start, the Swede has faded in recent weeks to the point where he is now virtually out of Hansi Flick's rotation.
The November statistics speak for themselves: Bardghji has only played nine minutes, excluding injury time, in the entire month of November.
To be specific, he played seven minutes in the 3-3 draw against Club Brugge in the Champions League, while the rest were in LaLiga against Elche. Since that night in Belgium, the striker has not played again and now has five consecutive official matches without setting foot on the pitch.
His situation contrasts with the expectations generated in the summer, when Barca decided to sign him after tracking him for over a year and seeing him establish himself as one of the great promises of Nordic football.
Flick gave him a chance in the first few weeks of the competition, taking advantage of his energy and audacity to shake up the final stages of the game. However, as the season has progressed, the German coach has reduced his playing time, opting for other solutions.
This inevitably brings to mind the case of Yusuf Demir, another young talent who dazzled in his early days with Ronald Koeman and ended up leaving through the back door in the winter transfer window.
The Austrian went from being a starter at Camp Nou to stringing together games without playing time until the club ended his time as a Barca player.
There are already voices within Barca comparing the two cases and fearing that Bardghji will follow the same path as Demir if the dynamic is not reversed soon. In the short term, this weekend's match against Betis will be another litmus test to see what his real role in the squad is. If he is once again left on the bench, it will reinforce the idea that he has taken a back seat in Flick's plans.