Barça lands in Riyadh with its mind set on Betis

With a comitiva headed by the president Joan Laporta, the staff of the FC Barcelona landed the Tuesday in the afternoon in the capital of Saudi Arabia to contest the Supercopa of Spain, being the third edition of the tournament in contesting in Riad. The flight fly PVG1899 from Catalonia landed in Arab floor to the 20:30 venues (18:30 of Spain) and the ones of Xavi Hernández already prepare the party of semis in front of the Betis (20:00 peninsular).

The staff culé was received by a calurosa comitiva venue in the terminal before moving to the Hotel Fairmont Riyadh, to the cual arrived around the 22:00 venues. With an announcement in which Jordi Alba and Robert Lewandowski are the main novelties, the 24 culés quoted will try to win the tournament for the first time with the new format, since his best participation was the subcampeonato obtained in 2021 in Seville, in full pandemia of the COVID-19.

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The transfer of the players to the hotel had a slight delay because the aeroplane took more than the expected in arriving to the terminal of Riad. In the hotel, the recibimiento was much calmer, luckily, for a needy staff of tiredness. The Barça comes of a hard split the Sunday in the Metropolitan in front of the Athletic (0-1) and, to classify to the final, will arrive with 24 hours less than rest, since the decisive party will contest the Sunday in the night.

This Wednesday, the Real Madrid will confront to Valencia in the first semifinal. The whites defend the title in front of a rival that already won in the same instance in 2020 (3-1) and could reedit the Classical of the past season in the decisive instance if both do the duties in semis. In 2022, the ones of Carlo Ancelotti surpassed to the culés in extention (3-2) before winning to the Athletic Bilbao in the final (2-0).

The Barça will train the Wednesday in the afternoon

Previous to the Madrid-Valencia, the culés will train in the installations of the To the Hilal. The session will begin to the 16:00 venues and the 15 first minutes will have access to the press. 45 minutes before, Xavi will attend to the means in the previous press conference to the crash in front of a Betis that landed the Tuesday in hours of the midday in Riad. Cristiano Ronaldo visited the hotel of the Andalusian group to greet to his fellow and mate in the selection lusa, William Carvalho.