The FC Barcelona confronts this Wednesday 16 December to the Real Sociedad in the Camp Nou, with reason of a nineteenth day of LaLiga Santander 2020-21 that has advanced in the time for Barça, Real Sociedad, Real Madrid and Athletic Club, taking into account that they will have to play of here to a month the Supercopa of Spain 2021, in a weekend in which the rest of the clubs of LaLiga will play his usual day. The Barça wishes to heave the flight regarding game and results, and a victory in front of the group 'txuri urdin' would come him of luxury for this..

The ones of Ronald Koeman will have by in front a very demanding challenge in front of a team, the one of Imanol, that arrives after two ties been still in LaLiga Santander 2020-21, that however keep him like colíder beside the Athletic of Madrid. Although it is true that the Barça follows showing irregularities in his game, will present an alignment the sufficiently competitive to carry the three points in front of the Basques.

The group culé knows that a triumph will help him to prepare to level anímico of face to the next commitments of League, and from here that Koeman range to his best available players, hardly without rotations. In spite of the absences of Sergi Roberto, Hammered, Dembélé and Ansu Fati, in addition to the one of Junior with permission of the club, the Barça will configure an eleven of guarantees in which the front of attack will be composed by Messi, Pedri, Braithwaite and Griezmann.

Although the paramount will be to ensure the victory, the Barcelona does not want to go down the foot of the accelerator and expects to attain a victory been bulky that it can convince to his followers, recessing like this the level of tension that has lived in the last days. It will be necessary to take advantage of that the Real Sociedad has important drops like the one of David Silva, whereas Oyarzabal and Elustondo are also between cottons.

The XI of FC Barcelona and Real Sociedad:

  • XI of the FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Dest, Mingueza, Araújo, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Of Jong; Messi, Pedri, Braithwaite and Griezmann.
  • Bench of the FC Barcelona: Net, Aleñá, Pjanic, Riqui Puig, Coutinho, Lenglet, Umtiti, Trincao, Konrad, Iñaki Crag and Matheus.
  • XI of the Real Sociedad: Remiro; Gorosabel, Him Normand, Zubeldia, Monreal; Merino, Guevara; Zubimendi, Januzaj, Portu and Willian José.

The eleven of the Barça presents light variations with regard to the of the last party. In the defensive line, Sergiño Dest will go back to the titularity in the right side, with Mingueza and Araújo in the axis of the defence and Jordi Alba in the left side. Busquets and Of Jong will complete a centre of the field of containment, balance and recovery, whereas the forward will be composed as we already have advanced by Messi, Braithwaite, Pedri and Griezmann.

The Real Sociedad, by his part, will go out to play with the ambition to generate difficulties from the beginning and the clear will to struggle for marking in the Camp Nou. The ones of Imanol will not renounce to at all and, with the will to put the finger in the Barcelona sore, will reflect an intense rhythm of game in all the zones of the field, especially in the pressure and the repliegue. This yes, the 'txuri urdin' also arrive very fatigados after the effort in the UEFA Europe League.