I'm hoping Barca have an away match in the Basque region on 9 September as I'll be there. Normally it would be a long-shot but there are 4 La Liga teams in Basque this season so 10% chance! (OTOH, don't really want Barca to go to the Aneota after an int'l break )
Barca's squad for the pre-season tour: GOALKEEPERS: Jasper Cillessen, Adrián Ortolá DEFENDERS: Gerard Pique, Jordi Alba, Lucas Digne, Samuel Umtiti, Aleix Vidal, Marlon Santos, Douglas, Thomas Vermaelen, Marc Cucurella, Sergi Palencia MIDFIELDERS: Sergio Busquets, Javier Mascherano, Andrés Iniesta, Ivan Rakitić, Rafinha, Arda Turan, Denis Suárez, Sergi Roberto, Sergi Samper, Carles Aleñá FORWARDS: Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr., Luis Suárez, Paco Alcácer, Munir El Haddadi, Gerard Deulofeu Ter-Stegen and Gomes are still on holiday after playing in the Confederations Cup.
Deulofeu and Rafinha left out with injuries. Jokin Ezkieta is added (never heard of him before). edit: Ezkieta is a GK
Semedo was also called up! Here is the list from the official website. https://www.fcbarcelona.com/footbal...18/list-of-barca-players-going-on-the-us-tour
i wanted to see Sergi Palencia join the first team and play , he was amazing in Barca B , i guess they replaced him with Semedo , feel sorry for the Barca B captain
i wouldn't be surprised to see him move ahead of Vidal at some point soon. he's already in the squad for the preseason, so he'll get his chances.
Now they're saying 21 July at 12h30 Spain time. http://espanol.eurosport.com/futbol...ga-santander-2018-2017_sto5570241/story.shtml
Barca starts at home to Betis! Revenge of the disallowed goal. First El Clasico is weekend of 20th December and return is weekend of 6th May.
Actually the first clasico is midweek since Christmas falls on a Monday. This is the latest in the season I can remember a clasico being. Jornada 36.
Ah crap! Good point. But moved to a midweek in 2018. Well, since they're meeting 3 times in preseason maybe its good that they don't see each other again until February. Edit: Then again, the CWC matches for LPB are on 13 and 16 December. The clasico will probably be played on the 21st then (Thursday).
This has the makings of one team giving the other a pasillo at Camp Nou. And given the status of both clubs at the moment, Liga officials obviously looking forward to Barca coming out of the dugout first.
I'd be lying if I said that thought didn't occur to me straight away when I saw the calendar. Although it would still require LPB to build a 10-point gap above not only Barca but every other La Liga team. Of course another scenario is that they could clinch the league on that day which would be just as embarrassing and quite a bit more likely . Scenario 3: If someone is leading the other by exactly 3 points the match will be epic because one team would have the chance to clinch, but OTOH the other team will have a chance to grab first place with a win, and thus huge favorites to take the league crown.
Subs: Marlon, Sergio, D. Suárez, Arda, Suárez, N. Semedo, Vermaelen, Aleñá, J. Alba, S. Roberto, Umtiti, Ortolá, Douglas, Munir, Jokin
JUVENTUS Starting XI: Buffon; Lichtsteiner, Benatia, Barzagli, Asamoah; Khedira, Marchisio; Sturaro, Lemina, Bentancur; Mandzukic Bench: Szczesny, Pinsoglio, Del Favero, Chiellini, Coccolo, Alex Sandro, De Sciglio, Mandragora, Caligara, Pjanic, Rincon, Cuadrado, Douglas Costa, Dybala, Higuaín, Kean
so he isn't playing Semedo , Alba , busi and Suarez , he said he will play Masch in the midfield but he is playing him as a CB again , Vidal who is a winger is playing as a defender again , yeah if i was Neymar i'll just skip this garbage and fly straight to Paris because it seems Valverde is even worse than Lucho
This game started pretty high paced. 2 chances with Neymar on the left and could have already scored 1 goal.
Only because of the Confed cup , if he was there Valverde would've started him smh Neymar makes it 1-0 !!!