OGC Nice vs. FC Barcelona - Pre-season 2014 (20.45 TV3, Antenna3 and GolT)

The Barça of Luis Enrique contests this Saturday (20:45 hours, TV3, antenna3 and Goal T) against the OGC Nice his second commitment of pre-season. The meeting will contest in the stadium Allianz Riviera of the French city two weeks after the debut of the Barcelona team against the Recreational of Huelva (0-1). Catalans and French, that occupy the place 138 in the ranking UEFA will go back to see the faces 40 years after his last clash in a party that will allow to ones and to other prepare for the start of his respective leagues, that begin in August. The Nice will set up before that the Barcelona and on 9 August already will contest the first day of Tie it 1 French against the Toulouse home, in the Allianz Riviera, a stadium inaugurated in the year 2013.

The OGC Nice, directed by Claude Puel, added 12 victories, 6 ties, 20 defeats, 30 marked goals and 44 fit in the past French championship. Some numbers that, at the end of season, situated it seventeenth in the classification, with 42 points in 38 parties and to alone 2 points of the descent. And this that the Nice came to complete one of the best seasons of the last years. The course 2012/13 the team of the Côte d'Azur turned into the disclosure of the French football and finished chamber in Tie it 1, with 64 points, to only three of the Olympique of Lyon, third qualifier. A position, the fourth, that allowed to the Nice play, again, the 1/32 of final of the Glass of the UEFA. For this season have lost to the goalkeeper David Ospina, but have incorporated to Julien Vercauteren and to Niklas Hult.

In Spain, the party OGC Nice-FC Barcelona can see in direct (Saturday 2 August, from the 20.45 hours) through Televisió of Catalonia (TV3), antenna3 and Goal Television (Goal T). Also it can follow on-line through Esport3, Atresmedia and Goal Stadium, that will offer the meeting with access from any PC, tablet or smartphone (only for accesses from Spain). Besides, different portals, like Rojadirecta, Bwin or Justin TV offer to see in streaming the party through platforms P2P (international signal).

The Barcelona team will arrive to the Allianz Riviera with all the players of the first team, except Messi, Mascherano, Alves, Neymar and Luis Suárez, that enjoy of his last days of rest. Besides, it is foreseen that they add some players of the Barça B, that also have worked with Luis Enrique and that they will be able to complete the team in front of the OGC Nice.

For the second commitment of pre-season, Luis Enrique will have to his disposal to 17 players of the first team. Ter Stegen, Claudio Bravo, Masip, Montoya, Bartra, Sergi Roberto, Rafinha, Deulofeu, Afellay, Hammered, Jordi Alba, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Rakitic, Mathieu and Pedro. Adriano Correia, that will be of drop between four and six weeks, and Alex Song, that abandoned the stage of England by personal reasons, will be the two main absences of the Barcelona team in Nice. By part of the players of the filial, until 8 of them could be summoned: Patric, Edgar Ié, Grimaldo, Samper, Halilovic, Munir, Sandro and Adama).

The friendly second of the summer will be this Saturday 2 August against the OGC Nice in the Allianz Riviera, and some days afterwards, the Wednesday 6 August to the 20 hours, will contest in Ginebra (Switzerland) the friendly party against the Naples. The Saturday 9 August, will confront to the HJK Helsinki in the Olympic Stadium of the Finnish capital and the dispute of the Trophy Joan Gamper will be on 18 August in front of the Club León of Guanajuato (Mexico), where plays the ex Barcelona Rafa Márquez.