Previous of the FC Barcelona-Celtic of League Santander 2016-17

DAY 26 OF LEAGUE SANTANDER

Barça-Celtic: Defend the leadership before tracing back to the PSG

Published:1/03/2017 - 19:17h

Updated:4/03/2017 - 21:45h

The FC Barcelona faces this Saturday the last "essay" before the attempt of traced back against the PSG in Champions League. The rival will be the Celtic of Vigo, team that already won to the culés in Balaídos and that it wants to distort the leadership of the Barça

After the goleada balsámica lumbered with to the Sporting of Gijón (6-1), that serves to frighten off to all the ghosts and increase the morals of the players, to the FC Barcelona pose him now two very important meetings in the future of the season 2016-17, and that they could have repercursión the first on the second. The ones of Luis Enrique have reached the leadership of LaLiga Santander and will defend it this day 26 in the Camp Nou against the Celtic of Vigo, a team that already won them in the party of the first turn in Balaídos (4-3).

In that meeting, remembered by the famous failure of Ter Stegen, Leo Messi was not available by injury and Andrés Iniesta and Gerard Hammered threw the team to the back. In this occasion expects that the Barça do not suffer so much to add the three points in front of the "celestial "", in what it will be a "essay" of big level of face to the traced back that the culés expect to achieve next Wednesday in front of Paris Saint-Germain in Champions League. The Camp Nou is turning into a fortín during the last weeks, coinciding with the best state of form of the Barça.

The Celtic of Vigo arrives to the duel with some drops stood out by injury, as the ones of Rubén White, Andreu Fontàs and "Tucu" Hernández, whereas Radoja has gone in in the announcement but is "touched". By part of the FC Bacelona, Aleix Vidal and Mathieu are the only definite drops, whereas André Gomes could not contesting minutes by caution after have not participated in the last train. The question is that the "celestial "" arrive after empatar to two in front of the Espanyol in Balaídos and tenth in the classification of League, with a party less.

Gil Manzano, in the sight

It is to few points of distance the Celtic of the places of UEFA Europe League that have at present Villarreal and Real Sociedad, and is thus that neither will go out to especular in the Camp Nou and will try to add some point. It will have to watch especially the defence culé -that it could go back to the 3-4-3 of the last day- with the mobility of the men of attack of the Celtic and especially with Iago Sails, that with 14 goals is in the actuality the maximum goleador national of LaLiga 2016-17, to seven goals of the "Pichichi" Leo Messi.

Precisely "The Flea" will look for to follow increasing his numbers and arrive to the sixth consecutive party of League marking. The Barça plays also with the advantage to be more accustomed that the Celtic to play two parties by week, taking into account the loaded season of parties of the Galicians, thing that could prejudice them regarding fatigue. Simultaneously, another of the big protagonists of the meeting will be the collegiate Gil Manzano, that pitará in the Camp Nou after the controversial arbitration that favoured to the Real Madrid in front of the Villarreal does a week.