Ray Vallecano-FC Barcelona: Alignments of the day 14 of LaLiga EA Sports 2023-2024

The FC Barcelona will confront to a difficult visit in front of the Ray Vallecano (14:00 h) in search to recover the identity and the stray rhythm. In spite of having attained a good result before the international stop, tracing back against the Alavés (2-1) home, the cast of Xavi Hernández still has several incógnitas in his game that will try to resolve in this clash against the 'franjirrojos'.

The culés will look for to achieve a victory in Vallecas that keep them in the career by the leadership of LaLiga and allow them arrive to the 33 points, figure that, for the moment, would put him only to a point of the first place, to fault of what do the Girona and the Real Madrid in his respective duels. Nevertheless, will have in front to a hard rival, that although they come of a defeat against the current leader, have showed to be difficult to win. Even they attained arañar a point in his visit to the merengues, with a tie without goals.

For this party, the Barça will have the known absence of Gavi because of a break of the ligament crossed previous of the right knee that suffered recently. This will keep it out of the terrains of game during at least six to eight months. Besides, to the drop of Sergi Roberto, now has added him the one of Marc André Ter Stegen because of problems in the back. It will be substituted by Iñaki Crag, the one who will confront to his first titularity of the season.

Alignments of the Ray Vallecano-FC Barcelona of LaLiga:

• XI of the FC Barcelona: Iñaki Crag; I Cancel, Iñigo Martínez, Christensen, Balde; Oriol Romeu, Pedri, Frenkie of Jong; Lamine Yamal, Lewandowski and Ferran Torres.
• Bench of the FC Barcelona: Astralaga, Aron, Araújo, Koundé, Marcos Alonso, Gündogan, Fermín, Aleix Garrido, Joãor Félix, Raphinha.
• XI of the Ray Vallecano: Dimitrievski, Ratiu, Lejeune, Mumin, Espino, Unai López, Valentín, Isi Palazón; Of Fruits, Camel.

Xavi 'revolutionise' his approach for the visit to Vallecas

The technician of Terrassa has made important changes in his tactical alignment. In spite of the previous rumours that indicated that it could opt by a diagram with four mediocampistas, has decided to keep his classical 4-3-3 with three players in the medullary zone. Nevertheless, the egarense has taken advantage of that Frenkie of Jong has recovered and has included it directly in the eleven headline, replacing to Ilkay Gündoğan, the one who finds in a process of necessary rotation because of the high quantity of minutes contested this season. Equally, it has added to Oriol Romeu to the equation like pivote of the centre of the field, since it has seen his best version when the Dutch is in the field.

Equally, Xavi has made a pair of modifications in his defensive line. It has given back the titularity to Alejandro Balde in the left side and has given back to Joãor Cancel in the right side in place of Ronald Araújo. Iñigo Martínez keeps like central defender, but in place of Jules Koundé, the one who did not show his best performance in the last day against the 'albiazules', has been replaced by Andreas Christensen. The Danish comes to contest the 180 minutes with the selection of Denmark, by what arrives in good condition of form and competitive rhythm.

To offensive level, the trainer egarense has opted by a trident conformed by Lamine Yamal, Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres. Voucher recalcar that Lamine will occupy the left side in place of Joãor Félix, the one who has had good performances, but has not attained to convert goals of consistent way. This will free the right side, where expects that Ferran Torres was leading after his stood out performance in the last party of the Date FIFA with Spain against the selection of Georgia.