This game is a huge banana skin. We have a centre-back problem and Getafe are a solid side with food results against many better teams.
Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:45 BARCELONA TIME CAMP NOU PREVIOUS MEETINGS SLL 16-09-2017 FT Getafe 1 : 2 Barcelona SLL 12-03-2016 FT Barcelona 6 : 0 Getafe SLL 31-10-2015 FT Getafe 0 : 2 Barcelona SLL 28-04-2015 FT Barcelona 6 : 0 Getafe SLL 13-12-2014 FT Getafe 0 : 0 Barcelona SLL 03-05-2014 FT Barcelona 2 : 2 Getafe VISCAELBARCA
Suspended: Umtiti Entering with four bookings: Suárez, Alba Carrying three yellows: none Upcoming Liga fixtures: J24 (A) Eibar J25 (H) Girona J26 (A) Las Palmas
Pique included and Dembele declared fit to play! That means Coutinho and Dembele are in the same squad for the first time!
Since @Viscaelbarca didn't start the thread we are going to lose , so i suggest to delete it and post it again ( and give @bronx_bull a yellow card while you're at it for trying to jinx us )
Glad to see Pique made the squad but since it is a Liga match at home and he suffered making sure we qualified for the Copa final, and did not practice, I think he is there as an emergency if Mina or Digne get injured or if they stink to high heaven together and leak a goal or more and we need to seal it up. So I agree with Bronx Bull's prediction, though we could certainly see Semedo start for Roberto, Paulinho or even Denis or Vidal for Coutinho or even Iniesta, even Paco for Luis. But yeah, think this is our lineup and we try to keep pressure off the weird CB pairing of newby and LB pairing at CB, by both scoring and dominating possession (and high pressing when we lose possession). Mats Sergi, Mina, Digne, Alba Coutinho Rakitic Busquets Iniesta Messi Suarez
Atletico won and are 6 pts away so no messing around. Getafe have the 3rd best defense in La Liga, the 2nd best in the Madrid metro area right below Atletico and right above .... Leganes So expect a tight game. The first leg is when the legend of Paulinho was born where he scored the late winner.
Starters Mats Roberto Mina Digne Alba Raki Busi Couti Paco Leo Luis So looks like Coutinho spells Iniesta and we actually play 3 forwards instead of 4 mids plus the CB experiment due to 2 injured and 1 suspended
🎬 ¡@FCBarcelona_es y @GetafeCF calientan en el Camp Nou! #BarçaGetafe https://t.co/tIUWQiLLhH— LALIGA (@LaLiga) February 11, 2018
Listening to Catalunya Radio and they interviewed a family member who confirmed that Mina was named after the 'Tom & Jerry' cartoon series and that they pronounce his name as Jerry with a hard 'j', not Yerry even though it's spelled that way. The commentators were used to calling him Yerry and are now having a field day saying both names when referring to him. ("Yerry or Jerry Mina starting today...") A bit humorous. At least, more humorous than anything Ray Hudson will say today.
Man, I hope we score a.ton of goals in this match, because we may need 'em, as three of our four defenders are second choice or worse and thus that back line looks scary to me.
Man, between the ref letting this be a knife-fight, our makeshift backline, and the energy Getafe is playing with, this is a bit scary.