Umtiti And Vermaelen have not played together neither in friendly

It has happened a week since it knew the news that Gerard Hammered will not be in Mestalla, and with the step of the days has gone confirming that, except capital surprise, Thomas Vermaelen will occupy his place against Valencia. The FC Barcelona faces a commitment importantísimo against the second classified of LaLiga and with Samuel Umtiti giving off security, all the looks will be put on the Belgian.

The true is that the feelings around the footballer of Kapellen are not bad, since there is consensus with regard to the quality that treasures, but explaining that this time hold in full physical conditions, what concerns more is that it has not played the sufficient as to have a rhythm of competition adapted. Further of the trainings and an only party in front of the Murcia, the central is unpublished.

It gives the circumstance, besides, that Vermaelen and Umtiti never have coincided on a terrain of game, not even in a friendly meeting. In the first place they arrived in different stages to the changing room of the Barça, and in the past pre-season, when treating of two left-handed head offices, the normal was that one was substituted by the another.

Without experiments

Between the options of which has Ernesto Valverde for the party, the couple Umtiti-Vermaelen seems the most natural, with the placed French like right-handed head office and the Belgian like left-handed. If it does not expect that Sergio Busquets or Lucas Digne modify his position, neither seems that the technician go to bet by David Coasts, to the that yes could give a place in the list of summoned.