The FC Barcelona returns to the competition liguera after an absence of two weeks because of the clashes of Glass of Rey and Supercopa. The ones of Xavi Hernández will confront to the Real Betis the Sunday 21 January in Benito Villamarín, where the Andalusians still have not suffered defeats in League this season. However, the team is plagado of drops and accumulates a total of 12 absences for the meeting, what involves numerous novelties in the eleven of Manuel Pellegrini.
The players that will lose the meeting in front of the Barça are Abde, Chadi Riad and Youssouf Sabaly because of his commitments with his respective selections in the Glass Africa. Besides, the béticos also have a long list of lesionados that includes the names of Guido Rodríguez, Marc Bartra, Claudio Bravo, Juan Miranda, Ayoze Pérez, Aitor Ruibal, Nobel Mendy and Sergi Altimira. All these drops are of big importance for the verdiblancos, since the majority of them are players titled of the team.
In fact, in the last session of previous training to the party, the Andalusian team saw forced to resort to some canteranos to complete the training and the consistent list of summoned for the crash suspender belt. The Chilean technician adopted this measure due to the fact that the numerous drops of the team have affected considerably to all the areas of the field and have 'dismantled' the tactical approach. Still it is an incógnita how the 'míster' bético will pose the party and will range the few index cards that has available.
The injuries also happen bill to the Barcelona
By his part, the Barcelona team also has seen affected by the injuries, although no as much as the béticos. The team of the City Condal has until 6 players lesionados in the staff: Ter Stegen, Gavi, Iñigo Martínez, Marcos Alonso, Raphinha and Joao Cancel, after confirming that this last also is descartado for the meeting.
The Barça has the obligation to add 3 very important points, so much to keep in the career with Girona and Real Madrid, as to give back the competitive spirit and the good dynamics to the team. Besides, taking into account it mermado that it is the Andalusian group by the drops, is the perfect opportunity to initiate with good foot the 'flawless' way to the triumph that will have to visit the team of Xavi if it wants to do with the title suspender belt when concluding the season.