Line-ups of the FC Barcelona-Valencia of LaLiga 2020-21

The FC Barcelona confronts this Saturday 19 December to Valencia CF in the Camp Nou, with reason of a fourteenth day of LaLiga Santander 2020-21 in which the culés will look for to obtain his third consecutive victory, after the last triumphs in front of Raise (1-0) and Real Sociedad (2-1) by the minimum. The Barça wishes to follow escalando positions in the classification until putting of full in the fight by the title.

The ones of Ronald Koeman will have by in front a very demanding challenge in front of a team, the one of Javi Gracia, that arrives after some very irregular results in LaLiga Santander 2020-21, but that even so it follows having of players very dangerous. To counter to the 'chés' and avoid that they give a fright in the Camp Nou, Koeman will present a conclusive alignment and with few rotations.

The group culé knows that a triumph will help him to prepare to level anímico of face to the last commitments of the 2020, and from here that Koeman range to his best available players. In spite of the absences of Sergi Roberto, Hammered, Dembélé and Ansu Fati, and with Junior Firpo that went back to the announcement, the Barça will configure an eleven of guarantees in which the front of attack will be composed by Messi, Coutinho, Braithwaite and Griezmann.

Although the paramount will be to ensure the victory, the Barcelona does not want to go down the foot of the accelerator and expects to attain a victory been bulky that it can convince to his followers, recessing like this the level of tension that has lived in the last days. It will be necessary to take advantage of that Valencia CF arrives justito physically to the not having a too wide staff because of his last sales in the market of signings.

The XI of FC Barcelona and Valencia CF:

• XI of the FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Dest, Mingueza, Araújo, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Pedri; Messi, Coutinho, Braithwaite and Griezmann.
• Bench of the FC Barcelona: Net, Aleñá, Pjanic, Riqui Puig, Of Jong, Lenglet, Umtiti, Junior, Trincao, Konrad, Arnau and Matheus.
• XI of Valencia CF: Doménech; Wass, Gabriel, Diakhaby, Gayà; Musah, Carlos Soler, Racic, Cheryshev; Guedes and Maxi Gómez.

The eleven of the Barça presents light variations with regard to the of the last party. In the defensive line, Sergiño Dest will go back to the titularity in the right side, with Mingueza and Araújo in the axis of the defence and Jordi Alba in the left side. Busquets and Pedri will complete a centre of the field of touch, recovery and creativity, whereas the forward will be composed as we already have advanced by Messi, Braithwaite, Coutinho and Griezmann.

The Valency of Javi Gracia, by his part, will go out to play with the ambition to generate difficulties from the beginning and the clear will to struggle for marking in the Camp Nou. The 'chés' will not renounce to at all and, with the will to put the finger in the Barcelona sore, will reflect an intense rhythm of game in all the zones of the field, especially in the pressure and the repliegue. The Barça will not be able to trust.