Barcelona will be desperate to put further pressure on Real Madrid in La Liga on Tuesday evening at 9:30 PM CEST, while they are confronted with RCD Mallorca, who fight for a European place. With a Copa del Rey final against Los Blancos on Saturday on Saturday in Seville, Hansi Flick will have a number of difficult decisions.
Originally the German manager was tipped to make significant changes to this game, after he had started his strongest line-up against Celta Vigo. Lamine Yamal was equipped, but the three goals they admit were proof of how little margin has Barcelona for errors. Sport believes that Ronald Araujo, Hector Fort, Gavi and Eric Garcia are all starting instead of Inigo Martinez, Fenkie de Jong, Gerard Martin and Fermin Lopez.
Robert Lewandowski has joined Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, Andras Christensen, Alejandro Bald, Marc Casado and Marc Bernal on the Letelslijst, and Ferran Torres would go through the middle this time. On the other hand, MD says that only Arajo and Garcia will rotate in it, but Dani Olmo starts instead of Lopez. It would be somewhat surprising if Flick Fort would choose that criticized him in his press conference before the game.
For Mallorca, Jagoba Arrasate probably seems to go with three central defenders, but they too miss a number of important players. Pablo Maffeo and Dani Rodriguez are suspended, while Vedat Muriqi, Takuma Asano, Robert Navarro and Manu Morlanes are all injured. Mallorca is currently seventh, seven points back from Real Betis, but four teams within three points behind.
That leaves Mallorca with fewer options than usual, and Mateu Morey will probably start at the club he got through. It also means a start for Cyle Larin, although there is some doubt about whether younger Marc Domenech will start next to him, or he goes for a more experienced option in Antonio Sanchez.
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