Saturday, 25 May 2019 21:00 BARCELONA TIME Benito Villamarín Seville PREVIOUS FINALS AGAINST BARÇA 1952 Barça 4-2 Valencia (played at Chamartin, Madrid) 1954 Valencia 3-0 Barça (played at Chamartin, Madrid) 1971 Barça 4-3 Valencia (played at Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid) LAST FIVE CUP MEETINGS 1999 (QUARTER FINAL) Valencia won 7-5 on aggregate and went on to win the trophy 2008 (SEMI FINAL) Valencia won 4-3 on aggregate and went on to win the trophy 2012 (SEMI FINAL) Barça won 3-1 on aggregate and went on to win the trophy 2016 (SEMI FINAL) Barça won 8-1 on aggregate and went on to win the trophy 2018 (SEMI FINAL) Barça won 3-0 on aggregate and went on to win the trophy From the Evening Standard Luis Suarez will have no role to play however having undergone knee surgery that ended his season two weeks prematurely. Elsewhere in attack, Ousmane Dembele is a doubt but Coutinho is likely to be available having overcome a hamstring injury suffered on May 12. Brazilian midfielder Arthur is another who is struggling for fitness, with Arturo Vidal in line to start ahead of him. Marc-Andre ter Stegen is unavailable due to a knee problem – but was almost certain to serve as Jasper Cillessen’s understudy on the day with the Dutchman Valverde’s preferred option in goal in cup competition. It could be Cillessen’s last game as a Barcelona player with a summer move likely. Barcelona predicted XI (4-3-3): Cillessen; Sergi Roberto, Pique, Lenglet, Alba; Busquets, Rakitic, Vidal; Messi, Malcom, Coutinho Valencia’s only absentee is Denis Cheryshev – who has still travelled with the squad to the Benito Villamarín Stadium on crutches. Ezequiel Garay meanwhile has returned to training after his recent hamstring injury. Valencia predicted XI (4-4-2): Domenench; Wass, Gabriel, Garay, Gaya; Carlos Soler, Parejo, Kondogbia, Guedes; Rodrigo, Gameiro Let's make it five Copas in a row, never been done before! VISCAELBARCA
Semedo, Arthur and Coutinho all medically cleared to play today. Lineup should be out in minutes. Lineup out and all 3 of the just cleared start, looks like Cillessen Semedo-Pique-Lenglet-Alba Roberto-Rakitic-Busquets-Arthur Messi-Coutinho
What do you guys all expect the outcome to be? I think there will be a lot of motivation to take the Copa given out their CL season finished. Should be a lot of desire and edge in this team to help straighten things out. The double is pretty big too if all things are considered.
Regardless of the season and other results, a final is a final, all trophies matter, and a record is at stake.
Bench: Iñaki Peña, Umtiti, Vermaelen, Aleñá, Vidal, Carles Pérez, and Malcom Valencia bench: Neto (GK), Kondogbia, Diakhaby, Lato, Ferrán, Piccini, S. Mina
Give it a rest you defeatist. Now when they're in the final you want me to cheer for Valencia? The way you think is scary.
Roberto as a RW ? I honestly don't care if we lose. And I won't be surprised. Not that it will shake things up apparently
Want this to be a great send-off for Cillessen. We've been spoiled to have a back-up GK as great as he has been.
So instead of playing Vidal in the midfield or Malcom in the wing he plays Craperto ... i seriously want to know what he has on Valverde to play him all the time