Lliga: Granada - FC Barcelona 0-1

[Galning]

This Tuesday 25th of October at 20:00!

Discuss.

[Bojan]

Tuesday already?
I guess it's good to play so soon and wash out the bad taste of yesterday's match.

[Antimilan]

A must win for Barca.

[Flavia]

Tuesday? Almost no time to rest... I wonder what team Pep will field.

[mitkoa7x]

Bring on the Barcapocalypse, last time we drew the result was devastating for the next opponents, hope thats the case again

[abual3bed1]

3-4-3 once again .. but with Sergio - Xavi - Iniesta - Cesc in midfield .. not bad to rest Villa in this match ..

and please Pep .. pull Messi off around 70th minutes if it's good result for us .. clearly he's overplayed and badly needs some rest ..

[PhilS]

Time to rest Messi, relagation-level opponent. Iniesta looked good at forward, give him another game there.

Rest Xavi, too.

VV
Alves Pique Puyol or Abidal
Thiago Cesc Busquets Keita
Pedro Villa Iniesta

Most any 11 from this squad should be able to put away Granada no problem.

[impeh]

unfortunately, i really doubt pep will rest messi.. ever

But, they wont have a superhuman goalkeeper, so we should win this quiet easily.

Cesc probably isnt fit enough to start either

any word on Puyols fitness?

[Flavia]

Messi won't be rested... I hope Xavi is. Since Villa played the whole match, and Pedro didn't, Villa could use a rest.

VV
Alves - Masch - Abidal - Adriano
Thiago - Busquets - Iniesta
Pedro - Messi - Cesc

This allows 3-4-3 if Pep wants, putting Adriano upfront and Cesc back in the midfield. But I prefer that he plays 4-3-3.

[ZeeMessi]

Id say Messi to start but please sub off at some stage if/when the game is fortunate in our favor!

[Frejsgodes]

Need to bounce back quickly. Cesc need to start, no matter if it's 4-3-3 or 3-4-3.

[barcaboy15]

Can't afford anything less than a convincing win away to Granada, so we should start our best possible XI minus one of Pedro / Villa.

So,

Valdes

Alves - Pique (?) - Mascherano - Abidal

Busquets
Xavi - Fabregas

Messi/Pedro - Villa / Messi - Iniesta

Then, IF we have a good lead take off Abidal-ADRIANO, Xavi-THIAGO, and Messi-PEDRO/VILLA.

[Jonathan28]

Destroy the lads!

[TheStig]

If we play 4-3-3:

------------Valdes---------
Alves--Masch--Abidal--Maxwell
----------Busquets------
----Thiago---------Cesc--
Villa-------Messi-----Iniesta


3-4-3:

------------Valdes--------
Alves------Masch-----Abidal
---------Busquets-------
---Thiago--------Iniesta----
------------Cesc--------
-Pedro-----Messi----Villa--

[mitkoa7x]

I would love to see, but when was the last time we played with 2 attackers...
VV
alves-masch-puyi-abi
busi
thiago-cesc-iniesta
pedro-messi

Its really hard to predict the lineup...