This Saturday to the 22:00 hours (peninsular schedule Spanish), the FC Barcelona will return to the football after three months without official competitions like consequence of the pandemia of the coronavirus, that caused a stop forzoso. From the Thursday, play split in accordance with the protocol of security and the 'new normality', marked by the masks, the desinfectantes and the empty terracings.
The culés will do effective his turn to the film in the estadi of Sound Moix, against the Mallorca. The group of Quique Setién will have the aim to protect his advantage of two points to the leadership, but the bermellones also will have a lot at stake, since they occupy the eighteenth position of the table clasificatoria and are put in a fight without barracks to attain the permanence.
By his part, the Barcelona team will restart his career liguera with an apparent mental freshness that would have to allow improve the image given before the stop, that had by flag a game that did not finish to convince in any appearance. Especially in the parties out of house, although this weakness far of the Camp Nou would have to be mínimamente neutralised by the fact to play the meetings to enclosed door.
In the only precedent of the present season, the meeting of the first turn, the FC Barcelona achieved golear to the Mallorca by a conclusive 5-2, with Leo Messi stellar that marked three goals. The others two marked them Luis Suárez and Antoine Griezmann and curiously, the team of Vicente Moreno could be the first in facing up to the 'trident' culé in the 'was Setién'.
The incógnitas of the eleven of Setién
The FC Barcelona presents to the party with two only drops in the announcement: the one of Clément Lenglet by accumulation of yellow cardboards and the one of Ousmane Dembélé, immersed in the process of recovery that carries out since they operated him the proximal sinew the past month of February. Splitting of this base, Quique Setién has carried the 17 available players in the first team, in addition to other six youngsters of the filial.
The eleven of the Cantabrian technician has two big incógnitas: one in the right side, that could occupy Sergi Roberto or Nélson Semedo; and another in the centre of the field, where Arturo Vidal, Ivan Rakitic and Arthur Melo will litigate by a place at the side of Sergio Busquets and Frenkie of Jong. With Marc-André ter Stegen like fixed in the goal; Gerard Hammered, Samuel Umtiti and Jordi Alba will be it in defence and the 'MSG' will form the forward.
A needy Mallorca
The Mallorca will return to LaLiga with the need imperiosa to add of three in three to avoid the descent, situating to one only of the Celtic of Vigo, that is the one who marks the permanence. The Balearic will have the drops of Lumor Agbenyenu, with an injury of twin, and Leonardo Koutris, with a break of previous crossed ligament. Vicente Moreno will entrust to the quality of men like Take Kubo or Saves Seville, two of the big rudders bermellones.
In previous statements to the party, the technician mallorquinista regretted that "in front of a team like the Barça is a hándicap important not having to our public, that always gives you a plus to compete", in addition to kidding saying that "we play us more than them because they already have won a lot of leagues, does not happen at all because it do not win this". This Saturday at night, arrives the big turn of the football for the FC Barcelona.
Technical index card of the party: Mallorca-FC Barcelona
- Party: Mallorca-FC Barcelona
- Competition: LaLiga 2019-20
- Stadium: they Are Moix
- Schedules and television: Saturday 12 June to the 22:00 (Spanish hour)
- Calendar 2019-20: League Santander, Champions League, Glass of Rey