I posted this guess in the season thread 4 days ago: MAtS Roberto-Pique-Umtiti-Alba de Jong-Busquets-Vidal Messi-Suarez-Griezmann Though I'm going to change my guess of Suarez starting to Braithwaite starting so Suarez comes on in second half. Current prediction also flip flops FdJ and Vidal: MAtS Roberto-Pique-Umtiti-Alba Vidal-Busquets-de Jong Messi-Braithwaite-Griezmann Given suspension of Lenglet, and Dembele being both still injured and also Liga ineligible (as part of us getting exemption to sign Braithwaite), we have only 17 "first teamers" who all traveled to Mallorca, joined by Inaki Pena, Araujo, Monchu, Puig, Collado, and Ansu Fati from Barca B (though Fati and Puig don't really train with Barca B anymore, I think, but are staying Barca B eligible for possible playoff promotion). So that is 23 players who traveled to Mallorca, 20 can make squad (so Inaki Pena and one other to be dropped), 5 can sub on but only at 3 game interruptions to sub per team plus halftime. We have 3 guys one yellow card away from suspension, pretty sure its Alba, Umtiti, and Suarez.
The hardest thing about this 2-3 month period has been the inability to watch the greatness of Braithwaite !
Dude is a machine and he's reported back super fit and also having studied his teammates extensively on video. He won't be as vital given Luis's return, and will see less minutes barring injury to other forwards, but he will make you happy we signed him.
Suspended: Lenglet 1 booking away from suspension: Alba, Umtiti, Suárez, (Lenglet) 2 bookings away from suspension: Busquets, Firpo, Messi, Vidal Upcoming Liga fixtures: J29 (H) Leganés J30 (A) Sevilla J31 (H) Atheltic Bilbao
Recent results vs Mallorca: 2019-12-07 BARCELONA – MALLORCA 5-2 2013-04-06 BARCELONA – MALLORCA 5-0 2012-11-11 MALLORCA – BARCELONA 2-4 2012-03-24 MALLORCA – BARCELONA 0-2 2011-10-29 BARCELONA – MALLORCA 5-0 2011-02-26 MALLORCA – BARCELONA 0-3 2010-10-03 BARCELONA – MALLORCA 1-1 2010-03-27 MALLORCA – BARCELONA 0-1 2009-11-07 BARCELONA – MALLORCA 4-2 2009-05-17 MALLORCA – BARCELONA 2-1
Help you pass the time till the game starts: after he skied over the first shot/cross, his next cross led to a Messi goal, then his final shot led to Arthur's goal, in both cases he got the goalie off his feet with the ball loose in the area.
Gloves ✅Masks ✅Mate ✅ pic.twitter.com/sXtsfZn0vu— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) June 13, 2020 The starting 11 for #MallorcaBarça! pic.twitter.com/y8qkE6PP06— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) June 13, 2020
Araujo starting instead of Umtiti (with Lenglet suspended) is the biggest surprise. Given that it is Umtiti missing out my first question is whether Umtiti is carrying some health issue. Sad that it has come to that for Umtiti who is still quite young at 26. Hope Araujo shows promise. I expect to see Suarez come on in 2nd half, and at least a couple of Arthur, Rakitic, and Puig spell the starting midfielders.