Barcelona starts on Saturday with the defense of their La Liga title with a trip to Son Moix to take on the Mallorca side of Jagoba Arrasate. The Catalans have had a very good pre-season and they will hope to translate that form into their competitive campaign, which is about to start.
Hansi Flick has not had an ideal preparation for the competition, since he was unable to know if he will have summer signing sessions, Joan Garcia and Marcus Rashford available. Fortunately, Barcelona has now succeeded in registering both players, although the Catalans cannot count on Wojciech Szczesny, Hector Fort, Gerard Martin and Roony Bardghji for the trip to Son Moix.
Besides these issues, Flick has had doubts about two positions: right back and offensive midfield. However, these have been clarified, in which Sport reports that Jules Kounde and Fermin Lopez are expected to be preferred to Eric Garcia and Dani Olmo respectively respectively
As far as Mallorca is concerned, Summer Signing Pablo Torre stands for the club that he left a few weeks ago. The young midfielder is expected to start in the number 10 roll behind Vedat Muriqi, with Takuma Asano and Sergi Darder on either side of him. Arrasate has also made a change to the goal compared to last season, where Leo Roman is now the number 1 at Son Moix.
It will be very interesting to see how this competition is going on. Barcelona are favorites, and they will hope for a similar result like last season, when they won 5-1 courtesy of goals from Ferran Torres, Raphinha (X2), Frenkie de Jong and Pau Victor. However, Mallorca will be determined to make life difficult for the Catalans, as they did in the inverted fixture in April.