Alignments of the FC Barcelona-Naples of the Champions League

The FC Barcelona faces this Saturday 8 of August to the Naples in the Camp Nou, on the occasion of a round of 16 leg of the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League in which the culés hope to achieve a result that will help them advance to the next round, if possible achieving a bulky victory that clears all the ghosts and avoids any kind of scare for the culé fans.

While is true that Barça has shown an irregular performance after confinement, the win with which LaLiga Santander 2019-20 closed in the Alavés field (0-5), together with the weeks of rest and training that the players have enjoyed, have made optimism reign in the Barça bosom. The objective will be to achieve the victory against the partenopeo team without suffering more than necessary.

The absences of Dembélé and Umtiti join those of Arturo Vidal and Busquets by accumulation of cards, in addition to that of a Arthur that he will no longer play with Barça and that of a Braithwaite that is not registered in the Champions League. Despite all the casualties, FC Barcelona will have the capacity to set up a fully competitive eleven, with the presence in the call of the recovered Griezmann, Lenglet and Araújo.

Although the main thing will be to ensure the victory and achieve a good result, Barcelona does not want to take their foot off the gas and hopes to achieve a victory as bulky as possible that will serve to excite his ‘fans’ for the eighth final in Lisbon. Depending on the result in the second half, it is possible that Setién bet on rotations to reserve some of his ‘sacred cows’, in addition to the warned ones (Messi, Griezmann and Semedo).

The XI of FC Barcelona and Naples

• XI del FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Semedo, Piqué, Lenglet, Jordi Alba; Rakitic, S. Roberto, De Jong; Messi, Griezmann and Luis Suárez.
• Barça bench: Neto, Junior, Ansu Fati, Riqui Puig, Iñaki Peña, Araújo, Monchu, Mingueza, Konrad, Reis and Jandro.
• XI of Naples: Ospina; Di Lorenzo, Manolas, Koulibaly, Mario Rui; Fabian, Demme, Zielinski; Callejón, Insigne and Mertens.

The eleven of the Barça arrives with few novelties. On the defensive line Semedo will return to ownership on the right side, with Pique and Lenglet in the axis of defense and Jordi Alba on the left side. Rakitic, De Jong and Sergi Roberto they will complete a fully guaranteed midfield despite the casualties of Busquets and Arturo Vidal. The front will be composed as we have already advanced by Messi, Griezmann and Luis Suárez.

He Naples, meanwhile, will go to the Camp Nou to play with the ambition to generate difficulties but with the tranquility, also, that he will only need to score a goal to get into the tie. Gattuso’s men will capture an intense rhythm of play from the first minute, especially in pressure and retreat. The red goal is clear: to take advantage of the exits to the counterattack to hurt Ter Stegen’s goal.

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