Kick-off: 15:15 GMT

Injuries: Umtiti, Paco (doubtful)

Suspensions: Busquets

First League Match of the year. We usually dispatch Levante quite well at home, so I'm hoping to see Dembele get some time on the pitch, hopefully, the last 30 minutes.

Predicted Line-up:

Suarez-Messi

Paulinho-Iniesta-Rakitic-Roberto

Alba-Pique-Verm-Semedo

TS

Line-up:

Suarez-Messi

Iniesta-Paulinho-Rakitic-Dembele

Alba-Masche-Verm-Roberto

TS

Highlights:



Thoughts?

We looked quite rusty in the beginning. Fortunately Levante were very wasteful or this could have been the ideal banana slip. Once again Messiah came up with a goal outta nowhere which helped us getting into the groove. The second half was quite attrocious tbh.
I liked Dembele, he didn't got carried away and didn't try too much as I expected and looked quite confident imo. Suarez was again at his wasteful best, still couldn't hate the guy. Hope he recovers from this awful patch. Rakitic did decent in Busi's role but the latter was missed as we gave up too many balls in dangerous areas resulting in counter after counters. Vermaelen continues to grow which is quite a good news for us. All in all just another day in the office for us

Rusty or not all that matters is that we got the 3 points and RM only 1

Paulinho's last minute goals are

You can see he's surprised when scores

Really wish Paulinho stopped scoring, so they didn’t use him lol.

I honestly don't mind Paulinho playing, he's not that good all around but damn is he effective.

also, I hope Alba didnt get seriously injured and ter Stegen is a monster, what a goalkeeper

he basically saves everything this season