Previous: Athletic Madrid vs FC Barcelona - Champions League 1/4 Turn
Previous: Athletic Madrid vs FC Barcelona - Champions League 1/4 Turn
Published:9/04/2014 - 01:25h
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The Barcelona confronts this Wednesday (20.45h, Channel Ties of Champions) to the Athletic of Madrid in the turn of quarter-finals of the Champions. The Barcelona team faces the duel with his eleven of gala, except Hammered and Valdés, in front of an Athletic with the doubt of Diego Coast
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A very good party of the FC Barcelona in the Camp Nou was not sufficient for traspasar the defensive wall of the Athletic of Madrid, by what the goals of Diego and Neymar give a light advantage to the rojiblancos of face to the party of tonight in Vicente Calderón in what it promises to be another full party of intensity, emotion and physical wear. The men of Gerardo Martino will have to see door in terrain "colchonero", something that only Neymar attained to do in the gone of the Supercopa of Spain in the past month of August (1-1).
Precisely the Brazilian was the one who equalised the marker the past Tuesday in the Camp Nou, and will be beside Messi the big baza offensive of the group culé to try break definitively the inexpugnable fortress of the ones of the "Cholo" Simeone. In fact, they will have to do it if they want to be presents by sixth consecutive time in some semifinals of the Champions and continue making history in Lisbon around the middle of the month of May. The Athletic, as always, will not put it at all easy and will be likely to explain again with his maximum artilleryman in all the competitions, Diego Coast.
The Barça has the drops of Hammered and Valdés
Gerardo Martino left to glimpse in the previous press conference that surely will bet by four midfield players to ensure the possession of balloon. The eleven Barcelona can be the formed by Paint; Alves, Mascherano, Bartra, Jordi Alba, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc, Neymar and Messi. For the party against the Athletic Martino has quoted to the 22 available footballers. They are all less the lesionados Hammered, Valdés, Cuenca and Jonathan Two Saints.
The two parties that has played the FC Barcelona this season in Vicente Calderón have finished in tie, 1-1 in Supercopa and 0-0 in League, although the first of these two results would suffice to the Barça for empatar the eliminatory and opt to the note to semifinals in the extention and possible penaltis. Anyway, we will have to see again the best version of Messi, Iniesta, Neymar and company to dream. And, of course, also it will do fault the impagable defensive effort of Sergio Busquets and Javier Mascherano, the teachers of the anticipation.
The Athletic arrives in his best moment of the season
The Athletic of Madrid arrives to the party in his best moment, leader of the League and convinced that it can win the eliminatory. The Madrilenian expect that his star, Diego Coast, recover of the annoyances and can form part of the eleven that jump to the Camp Nou. The Madrilenian group is one of the feelings of the season. It accessed to eighth adding 16 points in the phase of groups and, there, tumbó to the Milan with two victories in Saint Siro (0-1) and in the Calderón (4-1).
The group colchonero faces the party after having empatado (1-1) in the Camp Nou. The order of the eliminatory awards to the group of Simeone the advantage of the factor field. Javi Manquillo, recovered of his injury, and Raúl García, that fulfilled split of sanction in the gone, are the novelties of a list in which Diego Coast will be doubt until the last moment and Burn Turan is definite drop by injury.
This will be the second Barcelona-Athletic of Madrid of the history in European competition (the first was does a week in the Camp Nou 1-1). During this season, however, Barcelona and colchoneros already have confronted in three parties more (Supercopa and League), empatando in all they. And if it was not sufficient, on 18 May, in the last day of League in the Camp Nou, Barça and Athletic of Madrid will go back to measure the strengths, the one who knows if to decide the title.
Technical index card: Athletic Madrid vs FC Barcelona
Stadium: Vicente Calderón (54.960 viewers)
Competition: UEFA Champions League 2013-2014 -1/4 Turn
Schedule and television: 20:45 hours, Channel Ties of Champions
Referee: Howard Webb (England).
