Barcelona - Athletic Bilbao
Barcelona - Athletic Bilbao
Group Barcelona
Goalkeepers: Bravo, Ter Buck
Defenders: Pique, Vermaelen, Bartra, Alves, Alba Vidal
Midfielders: Javier Mascherano, Rakitic, Busquets, Arda, Iniesta, Sergi Roberto
Forwards: Messi, Neymar, Suarez, Munir
Outside group: Masip, Adriano, Douglas, Sandro
Injured: Rafinha Alcantara, Matthieu
Forecast
This is the first of three meetings between the two teams in the next ten days, as they fell against each other and the quarterfinals of the Cup of Spain.
Basque is quite volatile in recent quarters from the beginning of December have two wins, two losses and two draws for the championship. "Blaugranas" but also show fluctuations and for this period of time clocked three draws.
However, it is noteworthy that the mood at the stadium "Camp Nou" is wonderful, since the beginning of this week the star of the club Lionel Messi grabbed the gold ball for a record fifth time.
It is noteworthy that debut in early January signings Arda Turan and alleys Vidal took great and certainly make the champion of Spain, Europe and the world a much more dangerous opponent with far more aces up his sleeve.
Athletic will be without its biggest scorer Aduriz Aricia, who is suspended, and without injured midfielder Raul Garcia. In the ranks of Barcelona injured calf is Jérémy Mathieu and Rafinha Alcantara still treated tearing knee connections.
Ernesto Valverde's boys have problems in defense in their last away matches while Barca scored four goals in his last three households. Moreover Barca are unbeaten in the last 26 matches in all competitions before his audience.
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