Lliga | Round 1: Athletic Club - FC Barcelona 0-1

[Flavia]

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Athletic Club - FC Barcelona

Date: Sunday, 08/23/2015 18:30
Stadium: San Mamés
City: Bilbao
Capacity: 40.000
Competition: League
Referee: Del Cerro Grande

• Suspended: Pique, Mathieu
• Injured: Alba, Douglas
• Doubtful: Neymar, Adriano

New lliga starting. Tricky game, especially without Pique and Alba. Athletic have a europa league game vs MSK Zilina(Slovakia) this thursday, so that's on our favor.
Let's hope Enrique and Unzue fix the defense, even without Pique and Alba.

Visca el Barça!!!

 

[raskolnikov]

No Alba,Neymar and Pique. Yep, we will be losing this match. Should have saved energy.

 

[xavi_the_Boss]

Mathieu is also suspended from last season.
So Alves-Bartra-Masch-Verm backline.

 

[Flavia]

Mathieu is also suspended from last season.
So Alves-Bartra-Masch-Verm backline.

Him too? Oh, that's just great, lel.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Really not looking forward to this game. Athletic clearly has the momentum on their side right now, and given our skeleton squad and starting XI, I will be happy to take a draw at San Mames.

And please, don't be humiliated again. Our extremely poor pre-season record has turned us from treble winners into a piece of laughing stock.

 

[raskolnikov]

Mathieu is also suspended from last season.
So Alves-Bartra-Masch-Verm backline.

Aduriz to score will be easy money.

 

[xavi_the_Boss]

Aduriz to score will be easy money.

He has scored many goals for Bilbao and trashed us in the Copa so yes it wouldn´t be surprising.Doing quite well for his age.

 

[DonAK]

Mathieu is also suspended from last season.
So Alves-Bartra-Masch-Verm backline.

 

[ThwiX]

How can Alba not be back by then? When will he be back, and what about Neymar? Hoped they both would rejoin training on Thursday.

Big thanks to Pique, by the way. This and the Fifa virus game against Atletico are going to be extremely difficult now.

 

[zanela]

I reckon one of Alba/Adriano will return in time. So I'm going with a masch-verm cb duo.

 

[Icarium]

Adriano will return mostly and alba will come on as a sub.

 

[BigBarcaBoy]

what does grimaldo need to do ?

 

[Icarium]

what does grimaldo need to do ?

Don't know. Lucho is not convinced with him and rates mathieu and adriano, vermaelen and maybe douglas over him. So no point in dreaming about grimaldo starting for the first team.

 

[xavi_the_Boss]

Grimaldo doesn´t even play LB for the B Team anymore..
He would probably still be better going forward then Verm or Adriano....

 

[Icarium]

Grimaldo doesn´t even play LB for the B Team anymore..

Probably for the best.