The new year starts for him Barça from Xavi with a whole odyssey in Son Moix (9pm / Movistar LaLiga). The azulgrana team will be planted in the stadium Visit Mallorca in the picture, among injured, punished, positive for Covid and unregistered players. The Barcelona team will have to pull the subsidiary, as it has been doing until now, but to the beast. And knowing that the three points are very valuable. There is no margin to give up winning any game: in equal games played (18) with all of LaLiga except the Athletic and the Madrid (19), the Barça It is not even in squares of Conference League, although it is true that he has the positions of Champions just two points away. The line is marked by Vallecano Ray, who plays against him Athletic, fifth with one point less.
Thus, the first round of the championship closes with a day that I was able to leave everything open for the second. A victory would give the Barcelona team a great boost both numerically and above all emotional, due to the value that it would have to gain these three points despite the precarious situation of the squad. Xavi, In front of a Mallorca also in need of points (the descent line is five below, relatively close) but with only four casualties due to Covid: the Balearic club announced seven cases without giving names, three of them of members of the technical staff of Luis Garcia.
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The line-up you have XaviIn addition, it will be highly conditioned by the absurd rule of counting in the field in a situation of Covid, at least, with five players with a first-team card, seven if there are enough troops among those available. And the Barcelona coach has at his disposal enough troops with a first-team record to meet that minimum of seven, as absurd as it is unavoidable. Even without Pedri, Ansu, Memphis y Braithwaite, son Ter Stegen, Neto, Araujo, Piqué, Eric, Umtiti, Lenglet, Mingueza, Frenkie de Jong, Riqui Puig y Luuk de Jong.
Neither does the captain have Covid Sergio Busquets, but in his case it is low today due to sanction, like Gavi, who is also infected with coronavirus.
Seven more reinforcements of the subsidiary
In addition to the usual Nico González, Ferran Jutglà and Iñaki Peña, with a filial from the subsidiary, the defenders also entered the summoned list Arnau Comas, Mika Mármol and Guillem Jaime, the media Álvaro Sanz and Lucas de Vega and the extremes Estanis Pedrola and Ilias Akhomach, which points to the starting eleven, next to Nico Y Jutglà.
Demir keeps negotiating
Although it could be available, because it does not suffer Covid, neither sanction nor injury, who is not among the 21 summoned of Xavi will be Yusuf Demir. The Austrian winger is out due to a technical decision and continues to negotiate to find a way out. And is that in case I played today against him Mallorca, Barça would have to pay Rapid from One 10 million for his purchase option, something that has been rejected by the Barça club, which is struggling to meet the ‘fair-play’ to register Alves Y Ferran Torres.
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