Monday 5 January 2009

Valdes, Puyol, Xavi and Eto'o not in Atletico list

Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola has earlier today announced the list of 16 players for the first leg of the 1/8 finals of the Spanish cup against Atlético Madrid tomorrow evening at 8 pm.

The list
Pinto, Jorquera,
Alves, Víctor Sánchez, Piqué, Cáceres, Abidal, Sylvinho,
Keita, Touré, Busquets, Iniesta,
Pedro, Messi, Bojan, Henry



Valdés, Xavi, Gudjohnsen and Eto'o are not included in the list, while Márquez (hamstrings), Puyol (flu) and Hleb (ankle) are left out for medical reasons. Hleb and Márquez have nevertheless been training this morning.

The team will only travel tomorrow, the day of the match, to Madrid.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Henry is in form, I think Pep will try him as the striker in the Atletico game and then Bojan will play striker after 45 minutes or so... Also Touré and his dribbling skills, Maybe Pep will try playing him more attacking and use keita back in Atletico game. IMO Messi probably won't start as he just came back, but he'll most likely sub in. This game we should experiment, but still win!

Louis said...

hm I'm a little concerned, this is not a game for experiments, I would rather see xavi and eto'o being rested for the osasuna game on sunday... and messi will definetely start

Anonymous said...

It is the first leg and if we lose we can't lose by more than a goal IMO, so we could catch up the next leg at home.

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