After both goleadas by 4-0 in the Camp Nou against Sportive and Manchester City, the FC Barcelona of Luis Enrique went back to the domestic competition with the mind put in not doing any granting more to his rivals and carry the three points of Mestalla. The blaugranas visited to a Valency that came to win to the Sporting of Gijón (1-2) under the control of Cesare Prandelli and with spirits and motivation renewed.
This is the XI of the Barcelona in front of Valencia Cf
XI of the FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; S. Roberto, Umtiti, Mascherano, Digne; Busquets, Iniesta, To. Gomes; Neymar, Messi and Luis Suárez.
Bench: Jordi Masip, Mathieu, Denis Suárez, André Gomes, Aleñá, Aleix Vidal and Paco Alcácer.
XI of Valencia CF: Alves; Montoya, Garay, Mangala, Gayá; M. Suárez, And.Pérez, Parejo; I Cancel, Nani and Rodrigo.
To face the meeting, the FC Barcelona had some important drops, originated during the party against the Manchester City and also in the last training of the Barcelona group, carried out this Friday. Gerard Hammered and Jordi Alba fell lesionados the Wednesday in front of the "citizens", whereas it Burn Turan and Rafinha Alcántara did it in the last hours.
The eleven already came preceded of a list of summoned revolutionary of "Struggle", in which it went in surprisingly Aleix Vidal after 41 days without having it done. The absences, accumulated especially in defence, caused that Luis Enrique had to improvise the defensive line in Mestalla against the "chés", this yes, with the "MSN" leading to the team in attack.
With this eleven, the will of Luis Enrique in Valencia was more than clear: achieve a new triumph and follow litigating by the leadership of the League Santander, just before facing other two dangerous exits in the weeks to come, as they will be Seville and Manchester.