Pinto
Montoya - Puyol - Bartra - Adriano
Cesc - Busquets - Iniesta
Pedro - Nerman - Alexis

I'd like to see this lineup. I agree Cesc is most likely in the middle, but I would like it best if Neymar played in the middle, with Alexis on left. Alexis is generally better on the left and if he's doing good things on the right this season, I'd like to see if he can produce those goods to an even greater scale on the left. I also prefer Neymar in the middle (he likes to drift into that area anyway), and Pedro on the right. Rest is fairly self-explanatory I believe, with all the absences.

I haven't watched Granada at all this season but with the injuries and FIFA virus I can see us dropping points here. It is at home, though.

The front three can play this game. They can have off vs Ajax as we are through and will top the group. Then we have Athletic Bilbao- they should play again, because after that they can have a near 2 week break with a game against Cartagena and a meaningless Celtic game.

Villareal and Getafe games are after that but before Christmas break, and are 8 days apart.

Even without rotation, seeing as we have relatively meaningless UCL games and games against Cartagena...it's not a demanding schedule

We'll do fine to play them in games where we may actually drop points (like this one) without tiring out due to our schedule. If it's really that tough, I'd rather rotate against Bilbao and Getafe than this game, which we can probably afford to do and still win.

I'd like to see our best team out there for this one though (of the players who aren't injured).