Well, the upside is that we have better rotation options (except at LB):
CB: Pique, Lenglet, Vermaelen, Murillo, Todibo
FB: Bob, Semedo, Alba
CDM: Busi, Raki, (Bob)
CM: Arthur, Alena, Vidal, Raki, (Coutinho)
Wings: Messi, Dembele, Coutinho, Malcom
ST: Suarez, Boateng, (Messi)
Now it's up to Valverde to make most of it.
Copa=red, CL=blue
2/2 Barca vs Valencia home
2/6 Vs Madrid Copa home
2/10 Athletic Bilbao vs Barca away
One week rest
2/16 Barca Vs Valladolid home
2/19 Lyon vs Barca away
2/24 Sevilla vs Barca Away
2/27 Vs RM Copa Away
3/2 Real Madrid vs Barca away
One week rest
3/10 Barca Vs Vallecano
3/13 Barca vs Lyon home
3/17 Betis vs Barca
International Break
Thoughts:
-I'm not too worried about the CL as we have a favorable home games before each CL games so we can have the luxury of resting the veterans
-However, I do expect us to drop some points in La Liga with us facing the likes of Valencia, Bilbao away, Sevilla away and RM away and adding RM of Copa in the mix.
-One advantage we have for the 1st leg of the Copa is that we have one more day of rest compared to RM who play on Sunday. Hopefully we use that rest to good use.
-It's going to be interesting to see how EV will use the squad as I hope he doesn't play the veterans in all those difficult matches.
-Dembele's return can't be timed better and I think Coutinho's form is getting better.
-LB back up is still a major issue though
EDIT: added the dates, thank you @JerseyAddict
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Last edited by soul24rage; 1st February 2019 at 12:37 PM.
Originally Posted by soul24rage
Or with dates:
HE CALENDAR THAT COMES
FEBRUARY
Saturday 2 (18.30 h./bein League)
(League, J-22) Barça-Valencia
Wednesday 6 (The 1, TV3, Goal)
(Cup, semis ida) Barça-R. Madrid
Sunday 10 (20.45 h./Mov. Partidazo)
(Liga, J-23) Athletic-Barça
Saturday 16 (20.45 h./Mov. Partidazo)
(League, J-24) Barça-Valladolid
Tuesday 19 (9.00pm / Movin Champions League)
(Champions, 1/8 ida) O. Lyon-Barça
Sunday 24 (time to be determined)
(Liga, J-25) Sevilla-Barça
Wednesday 27 (The 1, TV3, Goal)
(Cup, semis vta.) R. Madrid-Barça
MARCH
Saturday 2 (20.45 h./Movistar Partidazo)
(Liga, J-26) R. Madrid-Barça
https://www.mundodeportivo.com/futbol/fc-barcelona/20190201/46150583598/cuota-v-barca-21-el-caendario-barca-2-clasicos.html
Andres DON Iniesta is the only player in football's history to be Man of the Match in a Champions League final, EURO final and World Cup final.
The fuck 4 consecutive away matches. And then return leg of CL.
This is going to take a toll.
This is nice. The list on the previous page missed out Vallecano at home before our Lyon 2nd leg. With Valladolid at home and Vallecano at home before both our CL ties it would take a Roma type distaster to mess up those, we can rotate heavily in the games before these.
The breaks in between also break it up nicely although that middle section is tough.
Like you said at this point the trouble will be in La Liga and the Copa with potential fuck ups imo, I will be cheering for Real Madrid next week in the Madrid derby which could give us a bit of breathing space in La Liga between us and Atleti.
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Jair Ventura - Faking stats since August 2018
That first list is wrong, after the La Liga game to Real we have a week break, then Vallecano at home, then Lyon 2nd leg.
@soul24rage has posted the correct schedule.
Last edited by Vilarrubi; 1st February 2019 at 12:43 PM.
Jair Ventura - Faking stats since August 2018
Since it can't be a loss for both of them X is the only way to see it. 0:0 with 4 red cards
Andres DON Iniesta is the only player in football's history to be Man of the Match in a Champions League final, EURO final and World Cup final.
I'm gonna cheer madly for Betis vs ATM this sunday and ATM vs RM (ugh..). We really need ATM to drop points.
Cheers.
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we all know what we have to do...
throw the sevilla away game
,,Concha de tu madre, hijo de mil putas"
I half expect us to 'throw' the Atletico game. I think most of the leaders in the locker room don't rate our changes in the Liga anyway, Ramos did a motivational speech in training where he said something along the lines "we have good chance in the cups". So out of those three I expect us to try and do something against Atleti, scrape a 1-0 on a random Bale header, but otherwise they won't be going all guns blazing. Benzema is in good nick so if he puts 1 or 2 in there, they'll play for a narrow win/draw. We will probably prioritise Vinicius for the cup games as worse fullbacks play in those and let Asensio do something off the LW against Atleti.
Possibly
People are boring.
We can't afford to throw any games away. Atletico is on our behind.
Sóc Culer.
they play vs Rm , maybe they won't get a win . We also have a game vs them at home.
,,Concha de tu madre, hijo de mil putas"
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