Line-ups of the Barcelona-Athletic of the final of the Supercopa of Spain 2021

The FC Barcelona confronts this Sunday 17 January to the Athletic Club in The Cartuja of Seville, with reason of a final of the Supercopa of Spain 2021 in which the culés will look for to conquer his first title of the season. The team directed by Ronald Koeman chains several consecutive victories practising a good game and showing a big state of form.

The Barça, in this sense, will have by in front an opportunity of gold that will not be able to desaprovechar, even less after the ones of Marcelino García Toral gave the surprise when deleting to the Real Madrid in semifinals. Although it is true that the Barça also has been irregular in what it goes of course, in the last weeks seems to have heaved the flight and does not want to crash this Sunday.

The group blaugrana knows that a new victory in front of the 'lions' -to which already won in League recently more than a week- can catapult him anímicamente of face to the next commitments of League, Glass of Rey and Champions League. To the absences of Coutinho, Hammered, Sergi Roberto and Ansu Fati could add the one of Leo Messi by some muscular annoyances, but finally the Argentinian has attained to recover to time to be headline. Like this the things, the Barça will configure an eleven of guarantees in which the attack will be formed by Pedri, Griezmann, Dembélé and Messi.

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, promoting like this the continuity of the good series initiated from does days. 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 and not going down the competitive slat.

The XI of FC Barcelona and Athletic Club:

• XI of the FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Dest, Lenglet, Araújo, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Of Jong, Pedri; Messi, Dembélé and Griezmann.
• Bench of the FC Barcelona: Net, Iñaki Crag, Ilaix Moriba, Riqui Puig, Umtiti, Pjanic, Trincao, Junior, Braithwaite and Mingueza.
• XI of the Athletic Club: Unai Simón; Layer, Yeray, Í. Martínez, Balenziaga; Of Marcos, Dani García, Victorious, Muniain; I. Williams and Raúl García.

The eleven of the Barça recovers to almost all the 'headlines' usual of the last parties, although with light changes. The main is the entrance of Leo Messi, that could not play the semifinal in front of the Real Sociedad. In the defensive line, Sergiño Dest also will go back to the titularity in the right side, with Lenglet and Araújo in the axis of the defence and Jordi Alba in the left side. Busquets, Of Jong and Pedri will complete a centre of the field of containment, creation and balance, whereas the forward will be composed as we already have advanced by Messi, Griezmann and Dembélé, in a 4-3-3.

The AthleticClub , by his part, will go out to play in The Cartuja with the ambition to generate difficulties from the beginning and the clear will to give the surprise in earths sevillanas. The ones of Marcelino García Toral, with his usual 4-4-2, will not renounce to at all and will reflect an intense rhythm in all the zones of the field, especially in the pressure and the repliegue. The Barça will have to watch the contragolpes and the played to unemployed balloon.