Despite CE L’Hospitalet’s best efforts, FC Barcelona will still walk away with this one. Again, do not expect it to rain goals as Barcelona will be attempting to preserve some energy for the rest of this long competition, but the domination through possession and technique should be clear. Pinto may take after Barcelona’s number one and start a clean sheet record of his own, as it is hard to envision L’Hospitalet taking many shots on goal. The game will certainly be entertaining, if nothing but for the moustaches, but Guardiola should try not fret too much about this match.
FC Barcelona
Due to the international break, head coach Pep Guardiola will have less first and second team players at his command than usual. Alves and Adriano will be with Brazil; Mascherano and Messi with Argentina; Alexis Sánchez with Chile; and Thiago and Cuenca with Spain’s Under 21s. The only national team players who will be available, thankfully the largest portion, are those from the senior Spain team, as well as French defender Éric Abidal and Mali midfielder Seydou Keita. In addition to the internationals, both Pedro and Afellay are still injured and thus unavailable for the match squad.
CE L’Hospitalet
The coach of L’Hospitalet, Jordi Vinyals, is a former Barcelona youth system product and will eagerly anticipate his emotional re-encounter with his home team. Likely, Vinyals will want to field his strongest team possible so as to put on a good show for his previous club and take advantage of the slightly weakened blaugrana. - http://www.totalbarca.com
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