Quique Setién takes only 16 players to Vitoria. The injuries -Griezmann and Umtiti- together with the sanctions -Rakitic, Junior and Piqué- leave the team with almost the minimum to be able to complete the last call in LaLiga of the season. In addition, at the last minute, the Brazilian Arthur Melo, who did not train this Saturday with the team, did not appear on the list.
So that, the Cantabrian coach faces the last LaLiga game with 12 first-team players and four from the subsidiary, with the aggravating circumstance that three of these players are goalkeepers -Ter Stegen, Neto and Arnau-, so that you will have rather few resources when making the changes.
Also, if Luis Suárez, Messi or Braithwaite see a yellow card this Sunday in Vitoria they could not play the first LaLiga game of next season when completing cycle.
Messi will be one of the few who will have an incentive this Sunday: he is playing the ‘pichichi’ with Karim Benzema. The Argentine (23) leads the French by two goals (21), so he needs to score against Alavés to secure the award. If he succeeds, he would be the seventh in his career, beating Telmo Zarra, and thus becoming the only player in LaLiga's almost one hundred years capable of such a feat.
Everything indicates that Setién will introduce some news in the eleven. To start under the sticks, Neto could have a chance, also Araujo has many options to replace Piqué, while in the midfield Riqui Puig could repeat ownership and in attack Braithwaite could play the last game of the season by not being registered for the Champions .
The complete call for players for this Sunday's game against Alavés (17 hours) is: Ter Stegen, Net, Semedo, Sergi Roberto, Sunrise, Lenglet, Sergio Busquets, De jong, Vidal, Braithwaite, Suarez, Messi, Ansu Fati, Riqui Puig, Araujo and Tenas.