The three keys of Valencia-Barcelona of LaLiga 2017-18

The FC Barcelona travels to Valency to confront in Mestalla to the second classified of LaLiga Santander. Four points separate to the Barcelona of the valencianistas before a duel that can finish being key for the resolution of the championship. It treats of the two only teams that have not lost neither an alone party in what it goes of competition, a condition that one of the two could leave to keep.

The three keys of Valencia-Barcelona

Leo Messi will arrive rested

The Argentinian forward only played half hour in Turín against the Juventus. A fact that can become decisive for the player more determinant of the world. Leo Messi is to a formidable level during this season and his game in three chambers of field will be key to combat the solidity valencianista.

Marcelino García Toral will watch him closely and the safest is that it bet byc olocarle a lot of markers when the Argentinian receive the balloon, taking advantage of the presence of until four men in the medullary of the group 'che'. That Messi achieve to trick this surveillance can mark the difference between asestar the decisive hit in the League or leave it opened.

The diagram of Valverde

Until the last moment will not know if Ernesto Valverde will bet by the 4-3-3 usual, playing with Paco Alcácer accompanying to Leo Messi and to Luis Suárez, or by a greater population in the centre of the field with the incursion of Paulinho in the eleven headline, as it already did against the Juventus of Turín.

Valencia enjoys of players that are authentic lungs in the centre of the field, like Kondogbia, Dani Parejo or Guedes, although the Portuguese plays escorado in band. Play with Alcácer by the right would mean to want to attack the left flank of Gayà, a side that leaves spaces when it goes up by his lane. Play with Paulinho, on the other hand, would suppose to renounce to the game between lines of the Valencian to take the control of the medullary.

Defensive problem of the Barça

The drops by injury of Javier Mascherano and by sanction of Gerard Hammered will suppose that Thomas Vermaelen, that practically has not played in what it goes of season, and Samuel Umtiti are the only central available. Never before they had played together in the axis of the defence and the true is that the state of form of the Belgian is an incógnita.

Something that can pay expensive by the offensive quality of the players of Valencia. Zaza And Rodrigo, maximum goleadores valencianistas, move like fish in the water in the area and looking for the space to the back of the rival defences. Guedes And Carlos Soler by the bands also tend to throw diagonals for presionar to the rival head offices. A danger for an experimental defence as it will be the Barcelona in Mestalla.