Barcelona VS Atletico Madrid

Possible lineup

terStegen
Roberto Pique Umtiti Alba
Rakitic Busquets Iniesta
Messi Suarez Neymar


FUN FACT: Atletico has not won at Camp Nou since 2006.

woohooooo!!! it's revenge time biatches.

still can't believe they kicked us out of CL again

They deserve a good beating. MSN is in form thankfully

enrique did a good job of rotating the people who run the most
buscuit / sergi roberto fully rested
rakitic / suarez / iniesta subbed out

wouldn't be surprised if we saw digne start (i still believe alba is the starter but found it odd we played him last weekend? maybe enrique didn't wanna go full on rotation like the loss we experienced)

really hope umtiti starts over mascherano but doubt enrique will play the youngster over experience

Going to be an interesting game. We need those 3 points.

Great game, eager to win this.

There's no way atletico is winning this. Never. my guess is it'll be a hard fought win as usual with 2 scrappy goals from suarez and messi

Simeone: "Neymar sings, dances... then he'll rip you to shreds... he does his talking out on the pitch"

Luis Enrique: "I think that they will seek our spaces back, out fast and create the pressure"

Luis Enrique: "It will be important to take our goal chances if we want to beat Atlético. It's going to be a gripping encounter"

Simeone: "Barcelona plays brilliant football and has the most decisive players in individual and collective play."

Luis Enrique: "Griezmann is among the five best attacking players."

L. Enrique on Aleix Vidal: "All coaches must decide. It will happen every week."

Luis Enrique: "I see a very good team, as at beginning of the season."

Luis Enrique: "Neymar played in a spectacular way for the spectators."

Luis Enrique: "Busquets is the player any coach wants. He's an extension of the coach"

Luis Enrique: "Rafinha can play in various positions and that's vital for a coach" #fcblive

Luis Enrique: "Neymar has his own style and we enjoy watching him here at Barça"

Luis Enrique: "We cannot afford to make too many mistakes. Atlético Madrid is a candidate for a lot of trophies"

How have been Atletico playing? not at their best if am not wrong. Can't rule out them though, anything is possible.

They choked against two newly promoted teams (Alaves & Leganes) but then thumped Celta 4-0, beat PSV 1-0 and manita'd Gijon.

It's a different kind of animal though and they always give Barca trouble no matter the form.

Just hope for no injuries and I'm convinced we can beat them. My prediction is 3-0... yes, I'm optimistic.

I would take 2-1 happily tbh

Official: Umtiti suffered an injury to his left knee during training and will miss the game against Atlético Madrid

FFS

it says he will miss only this 1 game though so that's good

I'm looking forward to the day this man ends his spell at Barca.

wouldn't have started ahead of Masche anyway imo.

Journalist: "Will your team fight for 3 points?"
Godin: "We are going to play in Camp Nou, not in Santiago Bernabeu."


shieeeet?

can't see anything

I'm so bummed by this news. Umtiti has had such a promising start, and I was so looking forward to see him play tom. He's intelligent on and off the ball and also an aerial asset.

Nothing against masch, he's been a great pro, but his aerial vulnerability, reckless challenges, poor positioning always had me nervous whilst watching him. He did become great in ball distribution over the years. But he's starting to show signs of decline, and hopefully Barca don't have to over rely on him going forward.

Myesyats wrote:Official: Umtiti suffered an injury to his left knee during training and will miss the game against Atlético Madrid

FFS

it says he will miss only this 1 game though so that's good

I'm reading he will be out 2-3 weeks. Immediately followed by news that the club will solve whatever issue it was preventing us from registering/playing Marlon with the B team (and the first team) by this weekend. Guessing that means Marlon is gonna be on the bench while Umtiti is out.

don't see marlon playing ahead of mathieu, enrique likes him for some reason just making sure we have a backup to the backup i guess?

don't know too much about marlon but he has played RB before maybe thats the reason?

fffuuuu going to miss it

Aleix Vidal, Rafinha, Masip and Umtiti out of squad

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Hope we can get Marquinhos or somebody quickly so we can part ways with Masch. It's time for him to bounce

Umtiti injured for the first time in pro carrer. Barca effect

windkick wrote:

Myesyats wrote:Official: Umtiti suffered an injury to his left knee during training and will miss the game against Atlético Madrid

FFS

it says he will miss only this 1 game though so that's good

I'm reading he will be out 2-3 weeks. Immediately followed by news that the club will solve whatever issue it was preventing us from registering/playing Marlon with the B team (and the first team) by this weekend. Guessing that means Marlon is gonna be on the bench while Umtiti is out.

yeah i'm reading 15 days now too

ugh

Donuts wrote:don't see marlon playing ahead of mathieu, enrique likes him for some reason just making sure we have a backup to the backup i guess?

don't know too much about marlon but he has played RB before maybe thats the reason?

That's why I said bench

Im gonna watch the game later on, im currently reading the pBp. Was Busq having a bad game? I just saw Gomes was subbed on for him right after HT?