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Think he is rested as well since he started like the last 4-5 games..

Interesting line up...Alba and Suarez rested.. Alena starts as well.. Valverde has stepped up his game after the winter break with good rotations so far... So that's a 4-5-1 with Prince up front?

Looks like a good signing..Now if we can ship Busquets and Rakitic, it would be a job well done overall. Alternative would be to keep one of them but make it clear that they are a sub and not a main starter. But i am not entirely sure that would work with our current squad. Now that he has...

Pleasantly surprised with the squad list. Resting Messi is probably good. Similarly Busquets who has been bad lately with the occasional odd decent game. Dont really care about the Copa since we have won it so many times..but if we can get to the finals while resting players sufficiently, sure...

I would rest Busquets, Alba, Suarez and Roberto for this one and play a midfield of Rakitic-Arthur-Vidal with Cou-Messi-Malcolm upfront. But fully expect the strongest 11 (minus Ter Stegen) :valverde: Unfortunately since Murillo seems to be out of this one, Pique starts again. Please no more...

So we shipped out a proper No 9 i.e. Paco and we bring a guy in who is almost 32 years old who has scored a grand total of around 60 goals in his career .. Typical day i guess :bartomeu: The only plus here is the board didnt throw a lot of money at it..so our downside is almost zero !! As long...

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Hope we don't trail during the game and win comfortably..defeats the purpose of resting Messi!! Plus its quite possible that he may start feeling Rakitic is the solution to the team's problems :valverde:

No Rakitic Busi midfield yet again :worthy: ... Could it be that finally EV got that only one of them should be playing at any point?? Also Vermealen starting and not Murillo

Gala 11 for the next 2 weeks :valverde:

Knowing our board, a 5 year renewal with ridiculous wage increments to an older player who is going to be 30 seems just about right..:bartomeu: ..It seems like they just want to turn Barca into kinda semi-retirement home ala Milan from a few years back...

Typical Valverde... One loss and Mr. Safe goes back to his strongest 11 :worthy: ... Rotation?? Now on, game every 3 days :valverde: On a side note, I hope that we dont draw Real Madrid next up if we go through seeing we need our Gala 11 for Levante ...If we dont qualify, that would be great...

No Rakitic = sorely missed and defeat :valverde: Time to trot out the gala 11 and get an ugly win as usual :D Ter Stegen, Roberto, Pique, Lenglet, Alba---Rakitic, Busi, Vidal---Messi, Suarez, Dembele

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Finally Rakitic being rested for a change. Would`ve preffered Busquets to be rested too..But well..one baby step at a time :valverde2: This should be our Copa squad going forward too. Hope he doesnt fold and revert to default and start with our strongest 11 if results dont go our way...

Well where do i start? For starters, i blame the board for finding backup for Umtiti but not for Pique.... Because now you had 3 left footed defenders.. But then again, considering Pique`s form at that point and way we were conceding goals, it wouldnt have been such a bad idea to a. Try two...

Waiting for him to claim "nothing is won in January" to justify full team every 3 days :D

Our defense folds even under the slightest of pressures...He has to fix this before the champions game..otherwise its going to be ugly, the moment we draw a top team... Now we have to wait for him to claim Levante is an elite team and then play his gala 11....

Nothing surprising here..He had kept playing Pique despite his poor form and his distractions off the field.. Obviously he wants EV to renew...

So if Valverde doesnt want to play Munir, then Messi and Suarez again in this game?? Of course, Rakitic is an automatic pick and Busquets didnt play one half so he has to play the full 90 here :valverde2: