5 - Carles Puyol

[Corb]

Puyol is training with the team fully fit.

 

[Bojan_rnr]

Puyol is training with the team fully fit.

Official: After new tests, Puyol is definitely out for the CL game against Arsenal on Tuesday.

 

[woobie]

 

[Valon]

DOOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

 

[DucdeOrléans]

We will be OK. Better to have him fit for the rest of the season than to risk his health.

 

[Corb]

Now he is not fit. Fuck!

 

[Flavia]

 

[Culeee]

I think milito or busquets will do fine against bendter and/or chamakh..

 

[gingerless]

no puyol hattrick to bail us out then

i pray to all the gods that millito doesn't play

 

[iookram]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

So I guess:

Victor Valdes - Dani Alves, Busquets, Abidal, Adriano/Maxwell - Xavi, Mascherano, Iniesta - Pedro, Messi, David Villa ???

Would you peeps prefer Adriano or Maxwell?

 

[Flavia]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

So I guess:

Victor Valdes - Dani Alves, Busquets, Abidal, Adriano/Maxwell - Xavi, Mascherano, Iniesta - Pedro, Messi, David Villa ???

Would you peeps prefer Adriano or Maxwell?

I think that line-up is the one. I prefer Adriano. Masch will rescue us from the Puyol doom.

 

[DucdeOrléans]

Indeed. Mascherano, Busquets, Alves, Abidal and Maxwell/Adriano will do it fine.

Hell, I even expect Milito to play well if given the chance. Worked last year.

But did we not miss both Puyol and Pique last year as well? A "funny" coincidence.

Keita could also play from the start. Would not surprise me if he did. Would also be more of a threat than Mascherano.

We could have used Yaya Toure for this match.....

 

[FCBarca]

Massive loss...Pique out was bad enough but Puyol was needed...Really intensifies the drama ahead of the encounter

 

[Flavia]

Last year we didn't have Puyol and Pique, and played milito and marquez. We're more solid in defense this time.

 

[the-don]

It seems that in CL we always have problems with our defenders. Against Chelsea, Arsenal last year and this year Arsenal. We need a good back-up CB cause we dont have one at the moment apart from Abidal.