The FC Barcelona confronts this Sunday 31 January to the Athletic Club in the Camp Nou, with reason of a day 21 of LaLiga Santander 2020-21 in which the culés will look for to take advantage of of the defeat of the Real Madrid in front of the Raise to assault the second position of the championship. The team directed by Ronald Koeman chains several consecutive victories practising a good game and showing a big state of form.

The Barça, in this sense, will have by in front an opportunity of gold that will not be able to leave happen, even less after the Athletic of Madrid, with 'doublet' of Luis Suárez, also have carried the three points of the Carranza in front of the Cádiz (2-4). Although it is true that the Barça has been irregular in what it goes of course, in the last weeks seems to have heaved the flight and does not want to crash this Sunday.

In front it will have to some 'lions' that already snatched to the culés the Supercopa of Spain does some weeks, and that with the arrival of Marcelino to the bench are doing much stronger that months backwards. To the absences of Coutinho, Hammered, Ansu Fati and Dest by injury adds the important absence of Busquets by accumulation of cards. The good news, this yes, is the return of Sergi Roberto after several months out of fight.

Although the paramount will be to ensure the triumph, the Barcelona does not want to go down the foot of the accelerator and expects to attain a victory the most been bulky possible that can convince to his followers, recessing like this the tension accumulated after the leaks of documents of the last hours. In the second part expect changes that will go in function of how pass the party, to end to keep the cool legs of the heavy weights.

The XI of FC Barcelona and Athletic Club:

  • XI of the FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Mingueza, Umtiti, Araújo, Jordi Alba; Pjanic, Of Jong, Pedri; Messi, Dembélé and Griezmann.
  • Bench of the FC Barcelona: Net, Arnau, Ilaix Moriba, Riqui Puig, Lenglet, Trincao, Junior, Braithwaite, Sergi Roberto, Konrad and Matheus.
  • XI of the Athletic Club: Unai Simón; Layer, Yeray, Í. Martínez, Yuri; Of Marcos, Dani García, Victorious, Muniain; Raúl García and Williams.

The eleven of the FC Barcelona recovers to almost all the 'headlines' usual of the last parties, although with light changes. In the defensive line, Mingueza will accumulate a new titularity in the right side, with Umtiti and Araújo in the axis of the defence and Jordi Alba in the left side. Pjanic, Of Jong and Pedri will complete a centre of the field of containment, creation and balance, whereas the forward will be composed by Messi, Griezmann and Dembélé, in a 4-3-3 system.

The AthleticClub , by his part, will go out to play in the Camp Nou with the ambition to generate difficulties from the beginning and the clear will to give the surprise in Catalan earths. The ones of Marcelino García Toral, with his usual 4-4-2, will not renounce to at all and will reflect an intense rhythm in all the zones of the field, especially in the pressure and the repliegue. The Barça will have to watch the contragolpes and the played to better unemployed balloon that does some weeks.