It GOES BACK THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

The Barcelona restarts the Champions in front of the Lyon with win to claim

Published:18/02/2019 - 23:00h

Updated:19/02/2019 - 22:32h

The FC Barcelona carries some parties without showing his best version, but the Champions League arrives in the precise moment so that the team reactivate . It will touch to litigate in front of an Olympique of Lyon ilusionado to attain a good result of face to the turn of eighth

It has arrived the key moment of the season: it goes back the Champions League. The FC Barcelona made a big phase of groups and, after leaving LaLiga Santander with a big advantage to the leadership and to achieve an open result in semifinals of Glass of the King in front of the Real Madrid, touches to restart the European career.

This season, the Champions League is not only a challenge, but a need. After three seasons seeing like the Real Madrid, the eternal rival, raised the 'orejona', there was an important plot in the changing room, led by Leo Messi, to recover the throne in Europe. The Olympique of Lyon is the first of the four obstacles that the culés will have to achieve it.

Step by step. Now it is necessary to centre in the eighth of final, in which the French team is convinced to be able to to give the chime. This Tuesday to the 21:00 of the night, the balloon will throw to film in the Parc Olympique Lyonnais and the FC Barcelona will have to go out centred to fine-tune in his game and improve the version showed in the last parties.

The men of Ernesto Valverde do not arrive precisely after playing to his best level, but the changing room is entirely mentalizado to avoid the errors of the past editions. They said it Ernesto Valverde and Sergio Busquets in the previous of the meeting, but now does lacking to put it in practice in front of a rival that is not favourite neither fault that does him to be dangerous.

The FC Barcelona will have the important drop of Arthur Melo, in addition to the ones of Thomas Vermaelen, Jasper Cillessen and Rafinha. The Txingurri could bet by Arturo Vidal to relieve to the ex of the Gémio, although Carles Aleñá and Philippe Coutinho also have his options. There is another doubt in the right side, in which it seems that the speed of Nélson Semedo will give him the titularity, to block to the fast extremes of the Lyon.

The rest of the team will be the one of gala, although it still seems prompt to give him the titularity to a recovered Samuel Umtiti. Special attention to Leo Messi and to Ousmane Dembélé, that will have to be the two big offensive referents. More than at all, by this capacity that have the Argentinian and the French to put fantasy when the team falls in the routine and goes back predictable.

The Lyon, without Fekir but with win

It is true that the Olympique of Lyon will not be able to have Nabil Fekir, maximum scorer of the team with 11 goals and captain of the team, but Bruno Génésio is of these technicians whose creativity is able of sobreponerse to any drop. The technical Frenchman will bet by the speed of his forwards playing to the space of the defence of the FC Barcelona, a circumstance in which the Barcelona are having problems lately.

The base of the team lionés will form it young players but of a lot of quality like Ndombélé or Aouar, creative midfield players, or Cornet, Traoré, Ferrier or Memphis Depay, fast forwards. In spite of the doubt of Denayer in defence, the Lyon will go out to kill. It will be necessary to go with care with this ambitious generation of footballers, since they do not have at all that lose and go to treat to put in check to the culés.