Saturday night’s Getafe match will provide Barcelona with the first of their congested and exciting upcoming agenda.
Barcelona will have to affront Rayo Vallecano on the 29th before playing Levante and Bate Borisov on December 3 and December 6 respectively. They will make a fascinating trip to Madrid for El Clasico on December 10 and then fly to Japan for their opening fixture of the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup which has been scheduled for the 15th.
The Catalans don’t want to run out of ammunition during the next few weeks, so are they going to treat each and every game?
“In this championship, you have to work really hard right until the end... everything matters in this competition. All the teams have their virtues, and if we aren't at our best we can drop points,” Pep Guardioa intelligibly stated at a press conference on Friday.
“Christmas is coming and we have to try to keep up with Real Madrid. Barcelona must keep up the same form, intense football and number of chances created as last month.”
Just before kicking off against Getafe, the Catalans could indeed be 6 points behind current league leaders Real Madrid. They will need to surmount fatigue after going through 90 minutes of intense football away to AC Milan in midweek.
Iniesta, who is not fit yet, won’t play against Getafe. Dani Alves, however, is part of Guardiola’s 20-man squad. The roster, which includes Isaac Cuenca, goes as follows:
Valdés, Pinto, Alves, Piqué, Fàbregas, Puyol, Xavi, Villa, Alexis, Messi, Thiago, Mascherano, Keita, Sergio, Pedro, Maxwell, Adriano, Abidal, Fontàs and Isaac Cuenca
The Catalans don’t want to run out of ammunition during the next few weeks, so are they going to treat each and every game?
“In this championship, you have to work really hard right until the end... everything matters in this competition. All the teams have their virtues, and if we aren't at our best we can drop points,” Pep Guardioa intelligibly stated at a press conference on Friday.
“Christmas is coming and we have to try to keep up with Real Madrid. Barcelona must keep up the same form, intense football and number of chances created as last month.”
Just before kicking off against Getafe, the Catalans could indeed be 6 points behind current league leaders Real Madrid. They will need to surmount fatigue after going through 90 minutes of intense football away to AC Milan in midweek.
Iniesta, who is not fit yet, won’t play against Getafe. Dani Alves, however, is part of Guardiola’s 20-man squad. The roster, which includes Isaac Cuenca, goes as follows:
Valdés, Pinto, Alves, Piqué, Fàbregas, Puyol, Xavi, Villa, Alexis, Messi, Thiago, Mascherano, Keita, Sergio, Pedro, Maxwell, Adriano, Abidal, Fontàs and Isaac Cuenca
