The FC Barcelona will see them to him with the Athletic Club the Sunday to the 16:15 to treat to keep the advantage of points with regard to his perseguidores in LaLiga Santander. The party will contest in the Camp Nou with a Barcelona group of sweet, after achieving happen to the quarter-finals of the Champions League in front of Chelsea. Now, however, it touches to think in the championship suspender belt, already without duels intersemanales in the horizon.

Because of the big accumulation of parties in these last weeks, Ernesto Valverde could pose the possibility to carry out rotations to play in front of the Athletic Club. The rest and avoid overloads it of minutes could be fundamental of face to what subtracts of season, by what some less usual players could have minutes in front of the Basque team, although the eleven will be equally competitive.

Without Luis Suárez neither Busquets

Ernesto Valverde has several notable drops by physical problems, to which has joined en última instancia Thomas Vermaelen, the one who has not exercised this Saturday by a contusión in the ankle. His place in the convoctoria has occupied it Yerry Mina, that could have a new opportunity to play. Nelson Semedo, Sergio Busquets and Denis Suárez are the others low by injury.

Without place to doubts, the most sensitive drop that will have the technician extremeño of face to the party against the Athletic Club will be the one of Luis Suárez, that saw the cardboard in the last hurt suspender belt and will fulfil cycle of yellow. The drops by injury and the one of the Uruguayan by sanction have carried to the Txingurri to summon to Carles Aleñá that, to the equal that Yerry Mina, could have minutes.

The dangers of the Athletic Club

The Athletic Club has turned into a rival quite less regulate of what was it in previous seasons, when Ernesto Valverde was the technician of the 'lions'. At present, 'Kuko' Ziganda is the director of the orchestra bilbaína and, in spite of that has obtained important results, still has not attained the regularity that the team had with the Txingurri to the control of the bench. At present, the Basque team occupies the half table in the classification of LaLiga Santander. 

Nevertheless, the lions cuantan with several arms with which can hurt him to the FC Barcelona. In concrete, there are three players to which the Barcelona defence will have to be especially attentive. Aritz Aduriz, a relentless striker that llea eight goals in the present season; Raúl García, maximum second artilleryman with seven targets and remarkable by his arrivals from second line; and, finally, Iñaki Williams, an extreme of pure power that has drilled the rival networks in three occasions.

Technical index card of the party: FC Barcelona-Athletic Club