PBP: FC Barcelona v Olympique Loynnais | UEFA Champions League R16 - 1st Leg | 19 February 2019 [R]

Barça have no players in danger of missing the second leg through bookings accumulation.
(3 = suspension)

Fekir misses out for Lyon through yellow card suspension.
Lyon have no other players in danger of missing the second leg.

 

For once, let's show some killer instinct and jump on these guys. Let's kill this tie in the 1st leg. They will be without Fekir and arguably one or two more starters.

This team is very dangerous in attack but porous on defense and they don't usually park the bus so goals can be gotten. Umtiti has been out for a while so I wouldn't play him because he might disrupt our defensive patterns which have shown some improvement in recent weeks. We have to keep them without the ball so no sloppy passing we saw against Valladolid please!

I would go with this lineup:

MATS
Semedo Pique Lenglet Alba
Rakitic Busquets Vidal
Dembele Messi Coutinho​

Then bring on a fresh Suarez in the second half.

 

sick record. still 2-0 win for us

 

Seems pretty likely to be the lineup, though Roberto or Alena could start in place of Vidal:

 

So Roberto gets a start in midfield and hopefully Arturo Vidal won't do angry any social media posts about not starting. Otherwise as expected (and as pictured above in prior post, just add Roberto where Vidal was).

 

Cue the 3 muppets...

 

-----Dembele-----Suarez------Messi-------
---------------Rakitic-----Roberto-------------
Alba----------------Sergio------------Semedo
------------Lenglet---------Pique----------------
--------------------TerStegen---------------------

 

Come on guys. Show some killer instinct today! Won't be able to watch this one till tonight. Hope I'm not disappointed.

 

LOL!

 

Barça bench: Iñaki Peña, Coutinho, Malcom, Murillo, Vidal, Umtiti & Aleñá

So the 2nd keeper from Barca B, Jokin Ezkieta, and the Barca B RB, Wague, to the stands, along with Prince. Umtiti is in the squad and it would be nice if he can get some PT towards the end of the game in his old stadium.

Vermaelen injured again, Cillessen still injured, Arthur too, and Rafinha out for the season. Samper no longer injured but not even in the 21 man travel squad.

 

well .. looks like Craperto is going to stink the midfield today not the defense then our genius coach will probably move him to the rightback position in the second half and sub Semedo off with vidal/coutinho/alena ... a player who doesn't provide anything defensively or offensively in every single match gets to play and i'm really getting sick&tired of it , guess the LPB trolls are happy as usual and screaming with joy.

 

yeah, for similar reasons, if people can avoid mentioning the Liverpool x Bayern score in this thread that would be good.

 

1-3 Bayern

 

I still keep forgetting that CL games kick-off at 21h00 CET now.

 

Messi is finished! He doesn't miss those.

 

Absolutely nothing happens on the right with Craperto or Semedo!

Suárez is so sloooow!!

 

Notice Rakitic plodding back like a 60 a day smoker after Dembele lost possession outside their box