From the start of the season and still with more intensity since sortearon the liguillas of the phase of groups of the Champions League, the FC Barcelona has marked in red all October by the density of parties complicated concentrated in the antepenultimate month of the year.
Until the moment, already have celebrated two of the five complicated meetings that had to contest the group of Ernesto Valverde: the one of Champions League against the Tottenham Hotspur, saldado with victory (2-4); and the one of LaLiga Santander against Valencia, that finish in tables (1-1). After the stop of selections, already expect the Seville, the Inter of Milan and the Real Madrid.
For these three parties, that boast like the hardest and transcendental of what subtracts of year, the Txingurri has a big problem: the injury of Samuel Umtiti, that almost with all security will lose the three crashes. The French defence no longer was available neither against the Tottenham in Wembley neither against the Valency in Mestalla.
Umtiti Is a fundamental pillar for the FC Barcelona. Since it arrived pertinent of the Olympique of Lyon, recently more than two years, the Frenchman has adapted perfectly to the team and has showed a solvency that remains out of all doubt. It treats of a drop of a lot of weight by some problems in the cartilage of the left knee that drags from the World-wide.
The reliefs of Umtiti
Ernesto Valverde has to two head offices to his disposal to cover the drop of Samuel Umtiti: Clément Lenglet and Thomas Vermaelen. The first of them was to title in front of the Tottenham and fulfilled with note, although in some played, as in the one of the goal of Lamela, was unlucky. Nevertheless, it showed solvent and like a firm option.
In the party against Valencia, the couple of Gerard Hammered changed and the French left him the place to Vermaelen. The Belgian head office also fulfilled with a good performance, as it already did during the past season when Samuel Umtiti suffered another grave muscular injury. It is difficult to predict which of the two will play in front of Seville, Inter and Madrid.