A Barça 'on fire' will seek to put on track the pass to the quarterfinals in Frankfurt

Published:6/04/2022 - 22:50h

Updated:7/04/2022 - 19:34h

FC Barcelona will visit Eintracht Frankfurt directed by Oliver Glasner at Deutsche Bank Park. The Catalans will face the Germans this Thursday in the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals

The FC Barcelona continues this Thursday to the 21:00 hours his way in the Europe League. After winning to the Galatasaray in an argued eliminatory, the Barcelona group will see the faces with the always complicated Eintracht Frankfurt. The culés want to follow his European adventure and achieve the only title that have in the hand. To achieve it, the Catalans will have to win to the 'eagles'.

The blaugranas expect to give a hit like visitors to the Germans, and go out with a triumph that allow them face the turn with greater tranquility in the Camp Nou. The team trained by Xavi enjoys of a present 'sweet'. They come to win by 1-0 to the Seville like venues, and already occupy the second position in the table of LaLiga. The spirits are to tope in the club, and a victory would go up even more the morals in his research by the titles.

By his part, the Eintracht Frankfurt arrives to the meeting after empatar in front of the Greuther Fürth, last qualifier of the Bundesliga, as local. However, his walk in the Europe League has been very different, and will receive to the Barcelona group without having lost any party in the competition, where have 4 ties and 4 defeats and come to delete to the Betis of Manuel Pellegrini, whose season has been genial.

The barcelonismo expects that the results and the good game showed in the last dates follow giving in the continental tournament, and that when finalising the season find with a trophy in his vitrinas. Xavi Hernández will go out with his eleven of 'gala' and, in spite of the distinct conditionings that presents the staff, will put the best in the field to achieve a conclusive result that do not leave space to the doubts of face to the turn.

All the 'meat in the asador'

The trainer of Terrassa will not risk in front of the germanos and will put his best eleven in the terrain of the Deutsche Bank Park. The Barcelona players are in a good state of form and the technician wants to take advantage of this fact. The only setback for Hernández are the apercibidos, since if I Hammered, Busquets, Jordi Alba, Gavi or Eric García see the yellow card, would lose the meeting of turn in Barcelona.

However, Xavi warned in press conference that this would not represent a limitante to the hour to arm his instrument and will put what creates more convenient. In defence, the only novelty that expects would be the one of Araújo like right side. The drops of Dani Alves and Sergiño Dest, the first by not being inscribed and the second by injury, force to the Uruguayan to act by the right-handed flank. In the meantime, his place in the central saga would be occupied by Eric García.

In the midfield, the egarense would go back to use his trident preferred. Sergio Busquets, Pedri and Frenkie of Jong would be the chosen to go out from the start. The Canarian arrives in an extraordinary level and presents like the main 'bastion' of the team in the medullary. Therefore, very surely each possession in attack will go through his feet. Of agreement to as it was giving the party, the youngsters Gavi and Nico could see minutes to freshen the centre of the field.

The leading would be the one of better state of form in the staff of the Catalans. The big level of Dembélé in the last dates posit it to the titularity, accompanied of the always reliable Ferran Torres and Pierre Emerick Aubameyang. However, the presence from the start of Adama Traoré would not be descartada completely, to give him rest to any one of the extremes that accumulate several minutes in his legs.

An important drop for the culés

Memphis Depay Will not be available for the meeting in front of the Teutonics. The Dutch is drop by injury, since it suffers one overloads in the semimebranoso of the left thigh and is slope of evolution. With this descarte, Xavi Hernández loses an important option to freshen the attack and serve like revulsivo in case that the meeting hamper him to the group blaugrana.

Also it is low Luuk of Jong, that gave positive by COVID the Saturday and, weigh that it does not present symptoms and his state of health is stable, will not be able to be available for the one of Terrassa. These low could represent an opportunity for Martin Braithwaite, that has not explained in the absolute for the egarense from his arrival.

The Barça, clear favourite

The group trained by Xavi arrives in his best moment, no of the season, but of the last years. It does not know the defeat from does 13 parties, in which it has empatado 3 times and has won in other 10. The victory 'overwhelming' to the Real Madrid has served like envión anímico for the culés, that see able to compete by everything. The Barcelona arrive like clear favourites in front of the 'German' and, probably, like the main candidates to raise the European trophy.

By the another side, the Eintracht Frankfurt arrives in a low state of form. And it is that the 'eagles' are at present ninth in the Bundesliga, to 6 points of Europe and to more than 20 of the leader, the Bayern of Munich. A season for the forget for a team that, in spite of not being one of the most powerful of his country, has known to be a strong opponent for his opponents. In Europe, however, has showed another face and is invicto in the competition. Although the possibilities are few, if the germanos achieve to take out a good result in his field, could give the surprise in the eliminatory.