Because of the avalanche of drops in the front of attack of the FC Barcelona (Ansu Fati, Ousmane Dembélé, Martin Braithwaite, Sergio Agüero), the fault of confidence in Luuk of Jong and the no registration of Ilias and Abde in Champions League, open a reasonable doubt to the possibility that Xavi Hernández decide to change his system in front of the Benfica, to form an eleven more competitive.
The technician of Terrassa has players of greater level in the centre of the defence and, especially, in the centre of the field, which could allow form an eleven stronger doing use of the fortresses of the mentioned defensive lines of the Barcelona team.
This system of three defences would not result him odd to Xavi, as it used it enough in To the Sadd. Neither to the players of the Barça, that with this system were able to win 1-6 to the Real Sociedad the past campaign or 4-0 to the Athletic in the final of Glass. This yes, with players with more hit like Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann.
Probably, the recovery of the carrilero right of Sergiño Dest, or Sergi Roberto if the Dutch does not recover , also opens a door to this possibility, as it would allow besides protect a bit more to players like Gavi, forced to do tremendos efforts like the Saturday in front of the Espanyol.
Likewise, the implementation of the system with three head offices would avoid the alignment of players less safe like Óscar Mingueza, that suffered an atrocity in front of Raúl of Tomás; or Coutinho, that neither surrendered what would owe, by status, in the derbi in front of the Catalan picture.
Possible alignment
It is possible to imagine that Xavi could range a Barça with Ter Stegen in the goal; Araújo, Hammered and Eric Garcia in defence; Dest and Alba in the lanes, Busquets, Of Jong, Nico and Gavi in the centre of the field; and Memphis like forward. It subtracts to expect the final decision of the new technician of the Barcelona picture.