Lliga: Barca - Villarreal 3-2

[KingMessi]

No love for Dos Santos bros?

Not when they play against, us, no.

 

[KingMessi]

Denis Cheyshev will be the real threat for barca. He is having a great season so far and we need to shut him down completely. We should start a strong lineup to make sure we don't drop points. Vilarreal are no pushovers, they will take the game to barca and players like cheryshev will cause lot of problems for barca. He has pace and skill and very good on 1 on 1's. Only iniesta and rakitic should be rested. Messi, neymar and suarez should start imo, lucho might be tempted to bench neymar for pedro but we need to take all 3 points from the game. We can later sub neymar out but with the form he is on it is better if he starts.

We need to make sure that the Madrid-loanee doesn't have any impact on the game.

 

[RightGuy]

Watch out for Vietto,he is a real menace.

 

[mampilly]

18 match unbeaten run for villeral. tough

 

[Egert]

18 match unbeaten run for villeral. tough

Always nice to end something.

 

[linetty]

Squad (vs Villarreal): Rakitic, Xavi, Sergi Roberto, Iniesta, Rafinha, Pedro, Messi, Suarez, Neymar, Bravo, Ter Stegen, Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Mathieu, Adriano, Alba, Busquets

Official: 18 players called up for the game against Villarreal today, Masip, Montoya and Bartra not included

 

[Behrox]

Squad (vs Villarreal): Rakitic, Xavi, Sergi Roberto, Iniesta, Rafinha, Pedro, Messi, Suarez, Neymar, Bravo, Ter Stegen, Alves, Pique, Mascherano, Mathieu, Adriano, Alba, Busquets

Official: 18 players called up for the game against Villarreal today, Masip, Montoya and Bartra not included

Are you kidding me why no Bartra?

 

[raki]

I would rest no one. The Bilbao game is a week away. And the 2nd half in Madrid was calm.
Full speed ahead.

 

[Gohan]

Such discrimination against Bartra.. He deserves to play!

 

[linetty]

erdi ‏@erMESSIdi Villarreal have scored just 2 goals from headers in the Liga (Barcelona 7).

Villarreal has 33 Liga goals, less than Messi (21) and Neymar (14) combined (35).

Barcelona record vs Villarreal in the Liga:
Home: 7W 4D 3L (GF 30, GA 17)
Away: 8W 2D 5L (GF 23, GA 22)

Barcelona wins the least aerial duels in the Liga (9.5/game) while Villarreal is on 17.5/game.

Barcelona concedes the least shots/game in the Liga (7.2). Villarreal is on 11.5/game.

 

[frog-fcb]

For some reason i can sense a draw tonight

 

[Barcaman]

Disappointed at omission of Montoya and Bartra. That'll be 3 games in a row they'll miss as I don't see them play in Bilbo next weekend..

Villarreal are unbeaten in all competitions in their last 18 matches. And they have scored at least one goal in their last 25 matches. No one mentioned this already?

Didn't know that. Should be even harder than we thought.

Watch out for Vietto,he is a real menace.

I liked him too last few times I watched Submarino.

 

[Flavia]

Alves and Pique with 4 yellows, and Bartra and Montoya are out of the squad... I don't get it.

 

[Kohe321]

Strange. I believe Pique can avoid a yellow, but Alves? I don't think so, at one point he will misplace a pass, and to make up for it push someone at the back so they fall during a counter and get the yellow.

He will then laugh as he jogs away while shaking his head at the ref as he always does

 

[linetty]

He will then laugh as he jogs away while shaking his head at the ref as he always does

This is the worst part. Shows he's just plain dumb. I hate when he does it & that's probably why he's the only player one the squad I dislike (besides players like Douglas whom I don't even count as a Barca player and to a lesser extent Mathieu).