Lliga: FC Barcelona - Real Sociedad 5-1

[Tembbi]

--------------valdes---------------
alves----pique----puyol--------alba
------------busquets--------------
---------xavi--------iniesta-------
----messi---------------cesc------
--------------alexis----------------

Messi, Iniesta, Cesc free role. Pure domination.

[Deco 20]

This could prove tricky, la Real are no pushovers

[mitkoa7x]

Alba-Iniesta-Pedro on the left is going to rip some new ones

[impeh]

sanchez is back from international duty on friday, apparently, so i doubt he'll start.

[karthik]

Valdes - Alves - Pique - Mascherano - Alba - Sergio- Xavi - Iniesta - Cesc - Leo - Alexis

[abual3bed1]

sanchez is back from international duty on friday, apparently, so i doubt he'll start.

the game is on sunday, so he has some time to get ready.

[CF4 1899]

I think Tito will play in this formation:

[xaviniesta]

i hope so too. pedro needs to play.

[BigBarcaBoy]

I think Tito will play in this formation:

Looks good to me

[CF4 1899]

Could of course be altered to play Cesc, where Iniesta would play instead of Pedro. Iniesta dribbling inside and now with the upcoming left back Alba who can overlap, should also be very nice. I absolutely hate 4-4-2, but I just really want the 4 best midfielders to play: Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc and Busquets. But I don't see it happening any other way than I just described... What do you guys think?

[Bojan]

Well, Cesc can always play the false 9. Switching with Messi and roaming about.
And as you said, Iniesta playing on the left should feel better this season as now we have Alba who adds us speed and width. Should be a great combination.

[PhilS]

Could of course be altered to play Cesc, where Iniesta would play instead of Pedro. Iniesta dribbling inside and now with the upcoming left back Alba who can overlap, should also be very nice. I absolutely hate 4-4-2, but I just really want the 4 best midfielders to play: Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc and Busquets. But I don't see it happening any other way than I just described... What do you guys think?

It is hard to not start all three of Cesc, Iniesta, and Xavi. They never play 4-4-2, Cesc and Iniesta trade spots a lot. I think Cesc will improve as a forward.

Alba is going to change everything on the left side, which will take a breaking in period. I don't know when he will become the regular starter. I would not be surprised if Adriano starts the Supercopa games, he is really good on defense vs. RM.

[CF4 1899]

Well, Cesc can always play the false 9. Switching with Messi and roaming about.
And as you said, Iniesta playing on the left should feel better this season as now we have Alba who adds us speed and width. Should be a great combination.

He can play as a false 9, but why would we try to let him do that? He is a world class midfielder, who happens to have had good games as an attacker. A great player in setting up goals, already having 130+ assists in his career. I think, as said in my previous post, Iniesta is better at LW(inside) than having Cesc at false 9.

Any way, rumour goes Alexis will start on the bench? Maybe Afellay will start on LW then, with Pedro on RW? Or any other combination up front?

[HerpDerp]

But anyway, should we rest some players ? After all we face madrid 3 days later, not to mention the international matches days before the league game.

In the last years we had a hard time against RS.
Also, it's the start of the season. If they are tired after 3 days then there is a problem.

[soccerbreaker]

Hope Barca will win by 4-0