Valverde Bet by 'gladiators' to face up to the 'lions'

The FC Barcelona faced a party complicated in front of a rival that always puts the difficult things. The Athletic Club always is a hard opponent, with eleven players that defend the T-shirt like anybody and that feel the colours rojiblancos, knowing what means to dress them. With good reason have won the nickname of the 'lions'.

To rid the fight against them, Ernesto Valverde bet by his players of more work. The 'gladiators' of the Txingurri confronted to the lions in the coliseo of the Camp Nou in a new war in what it already is a big classical of the national football, so much in the parties of LaLiga as in the ones of the Glass of Rey.

Valverde Had clear that to face up to a physical game like which proposes the Athletic Club was necessary to present a team aguerrido, and like this did it. The technician extremeño bet by a centre of the field of a lot of work, advancing to Sergi Roberto from the side and betting by the titularity of Arturo Vidal.

Both are players of long route that added packaging to the medullary beside Ivan Rakitic, another of the players that has this same profile of game. All this supposed to advance the position of Philippe Coutinho in the offensive trident, that in this occasion would have the Brazilian 'doing of Messi', linking the centre of the field with the forward.

Lenglet, proof for London

Another of the 'warriors' that had the opportunity to play in front of the Athletic Club is Clément Lenglet, that 'benefited' of the injury of Samuel Umtiti. The ex of the Seville already could play in front of the Girona, split in which it was expelled, and this Saturday could face up it to the Athletic Club, winning him the game to Vermaelen.

The French was the destined man to be headline in front of the Tottenham in the Champions League in a party that will contest the next week, since Samuel Umtiti, although it did not have lesionado, had not been able to play after seeing the red cardboard in front of the PSV Eindhoven.