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Barcelona received their sport in hand in opposition to Osasuna earlier this week convincingly with Robert Lewandowski, Ferran Torres and Dani Olmo scoring in a 3-0 win.
They now play the sport supposed for this weekend regardless of there being barely any time between the 2 video games and face a frightening opposition in Girona at Montjuic.
Michel’s aspect are usually not doing half in addition to they had been final season and are presently winless of their final six video games in La Liga. Nonetheless, there may be little doubt of their capabilities on the times they step up and Barcelona should be cautious.
Barça Common brings you three speaking factors forward of Barcelona vs Girona.
Resting with out threat
It’s virtually prison that Barcelona tackle Girona tomorrow lower than 72 hours after their sport in opposition to Osasuna midweek. But, that’s the theme that may broadly be adopted over the following month and rotations have by no means been extra essential.
Hansi Flick fielded a crew with out Raphinha and Ronald Araujo’s involvement in opposition to the Pamplona-based aspect. The previous will definitely return to the lineup tomorrow however the supervisor will even look to keep up a low degree of standard rotations to forestall participant fatigue.
Discovering the stability between regulars and substitutes, thus, would be the key to tomorrow’s sport. In spite of everything, Barcelona play Atletico Madrid subsequent midweek and can need all their greatest gamers rested and match for that conflict.
The likes of Eric Garcia, Pablo Torre and Fermin Lopez can thus anticipate minutes in opposition to Girona for it might be one in every of Flick’s final probabilities within the coming weeks to shuffle his playing cards.
Furthermore, one can anticipate substitutions early within the second half ought to Barcelona have a snug sufficient lead over their native opponents.
A novel double-pivot?
Barcelona’s double pivot in opposition to Girona? (Photograph by Alex Caparros/Getty Photographs)
Hansi Flick’s visionary concept to pair Frenkie de Jong and Pedri has labored wonders this season regardless of many believing the mix would by no means work and the duo have turn into Barcelona’s mainstay double-pivot.
The previous, nonetheless, reportedly has a gentle muscular setback and can seemingly be rested tomorrow holding the upcoming Copa del Rey sport in thoughts. Flick, thus, should discover a new double-pivot for tomorrow.
With Marc Casado additionally dominated out till the tip of the season, he’ll seemingly look to pair Pedri with Gavi regardless of him preferring to deploy the La Masia begin greater up the sector to this point this season.
In actual fact, Flick even hinted on the potential probability in his pre-match press convention when he praised Gavi for his work and defensive means.
“One of the best place for him is as a 6, however he has the standard to play in numerous positions. We need to combine it up. What we did within the final sport in opposition to Osasuna was to strive it out,” he mentioned.
It should thus be attention-grabbing to see how Pedri and Gavi work collectively as a double-pivot, for it isn’t one thing they’ve excelled at collectively previously. Eric Garcia additionally stays an choice to start out within the pivot place.
Defenders return
Barcelona confronted an acute defensive disaster for the sport in opposition to Osasuna earlier this week with Pau Cubarsi recovering from a knock, Ronald Araujo fatigued after an extended flight from South America and Inigo Martinez freshly coming back from an harm.
The Spanish veteran began the sport alongside Eric Garcia and each gamers had barely any work to do in opposition to Osasuna who barely obtained a sniff of the ball.
Tomorrow, Flick can have all his defenders absolutely match and well-rested and it will likely be attention-grabbing to see which mixture he prefers to deploy in opposition to Michel’s males.
Martinez would often be a bonafide starter, however given the hectic schedule, the dearth of relaxation after the final sport and the upcoming conflict in opposition to Atletico Madrid, the supervisor could favor to make use of Cubarsi and Araujo in opposition to Girona.
Ought to he prioritise {the teenager}’s health and begin him on the bench once more, he additionally has the choice of taking part in Araujo and Garcia on the again though that might be a extra dangerous mixture from the offside entice perspective.
The defensive conundrum for Flick, however, is a optimistic one and the supervisor is not going to object to having too many assets to choose from in defence.
Concurrently, he also can contemplate offering Jules Kounde a relaxation at right-back and beginning Hector Fort for the Frenchman has barely had any relaxation over the previous yr.
