Tuesday 10 March 2009

Botia and all first team players in Lyon list

Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola announced earlier today a list of 22 players for the return game of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League against Olympique Lyon tomorrow at 8:45 pm.

The list:
Valdés, Pinto, Jorquera,
Alves, Piqué, Márquez, Botía, Cáceres, Sylvinho,
Xavi, Víctor Sánchez, Touré, Busquets, Keita, Gudjohsen,
Messi, Eto'o, Bojan, Henry, Hleb, Iniesta, Pedro

Barcelona Atlètic central defender Botía is again called-up. the player has been training with the first team over the last two days. His team-mates Córcoles, Abraham, Xavi Torres, Thiago, Rayo and Benja also took part in today's training session. Puyol, Abidal and Milito are still recovering from an injury.

At 6 pm, the players are expected at the Camp Nou. Given the importance of Wednesday’s game, the coaching staff has decided to group the squad together in the Gran Hotel La Florida in the outskirts of the city. The team will have a last training session at 12:15 pm tomorrow, after which the squad will return to the hotel where they will spend the last hours before the game.




















5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alves should be made our stand by goal keeper..lol.. this is the 2nd time i av seen him do this in training..

Marc4barca said...

well alves adds attacking flair to our team but its a big risk allowing him to push forward so much in CL where the teams are tougher and strike much quicker on the counter attack. gaurdiola needs to tell alves to think before he decides to go forward. caceres should start at LB cause he doesn't go forward too much and he's fast. ederson is playing on alves side so toure man marking him would be the best option, benzema is playing upfront alone and that won't work against barca if pique continues to play decent defense and marquez too(hope he doesn't concede a penalty) juninho free kicks against barca are always lucky(remember last season group stage) valdes needs to be aware and stop letting the over-hype juninho is getting scare him other than freekicks lyon are not that big of a threat. knowing their defense we will get a penalty which eto'o will take(hope he scores, missed so many this season). i prefer we play 4-2-1-3 or 4-2-2-2 xavi and toure occupy the holding midfield roles to cover for alves going forward, iniesta does his part of freeing up space for the flanks and eto' keep doing his darting runs around the plenty area, while henry does whatever he does on the LW and messi splits the defense and opens space for alves crosses(which really is a waste of time for barca cause barca are not an ariel threat).. the whole plan is to tire lyon by the start of second half, hopefully we will be 1-0 by then and benzema injury problems will resurface after oushing himself too much i see grosso getting red carded, he got away with alot of fouls the first time but not this time. final prediction barca 3-1 lyon

Etsp said...

What are they doing in the second picture? Practicing their goal celebration?

iamGerson said...

Well analyzed Marc what more can one add to that accept goodluck to the boys!

Jnice said...

No, they were celebrating what they did in the 4 picture. They won the game of keeping it up in a circle while holding hands and running from one end to another.

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