The FC Barcelona confronts this Saturday 21 November to the Athletic of Madrid in Wanda Metropolitan, with reason of a tenth day of LaLiga Santander 2020-21 that will serve so that the culés follow accumulating good feelings in the domestic competition, after the goleada to the Real Betis, to end to go recortando points to the first qualifiers and especially to a Real Madrid that chains two 'pricks' consecutive.

The ones of Ronald Koeman will have by in front a challenge of height in Wanda Metropolitan, in front of an Athletic of Madrid that is showing as one of the safest teams of the domestic championship and that it is the only that still has not lost, with 5 victories and 2 ties. Although it is true that the Barça keeps on being something irregular in his game, will present an alignment the sufficiently competitive to carry the three points.

The group culé knows that a triumph will help him to prepare to level anímico of face to the next commitments of League and Champions, and from here that Koeman range to his best available players. In spite of the absences of Busquets, Araújo, Umtiti, Ansu Fati and Matheus, the Barça will configure an eleven of full guarantees in which the front of attack will be composed by Leo Messi, Pedri, Dembélé and Griezmann.

Although the paramount will be to ensure the triumph, the Barcelona does not want to go down the foot of the accelerator and expects to attain a victory the most been bulky possible that can convince to his followers, recessing like this the level of tension that has lived in the last weeks. In the second part expect changes that will go in function of how pass the party, to end to keep the cool legs of the heavy weights.

The XI of Athletic Madrid and FC Barcelona:

  • XI of the Athletic of Madrid: Oblak; Trippier, Savic, Giménez, Beautiful; Koke, Saúl, Llorente, Carrasco; Correa and Joao Félix.
  • XI of the FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; S. Roberto, Hammered, Lenglet, Jordi Alba; Pjanic, Of Jong; Dembélé, Pedri, Messi and Griezmann.
  • Bench of the FC Barcelona: Net, Aleñá, S. Dest, Riqui Puig, Coutinho, Trincao, Braithwaite, Junior, Mingueza and Arnau.

The eleven of the Barça is very seemed to the of the last parties. In the defensive line, Sergi Roberto will go back to the titularity in the right side, with Hammered and Lenglet in the axis of the defence and Jordi Alba in the left side. Pjanic And Of Jong will complete a centre of the field of containment, theft and control, whereas the forward will be composed as we already have advanced by Messi, Dembélé, Pedri and Griezmann.

The Athletic of Madrid, by his part, will go out to play in his stadium with the ambition to generate difficulties from the beginning and the clear will to carry the three points. The ones of Diego Pablo Simeone will not renounce to at all and will reflect an intense rhythm of game in all the zones of the field, especially in the pressure and the repliegue. The aim 'colchonero' is clear: take advantage of the exits to the contragolpe and the lateral centres, although without renouncing to the balloon.