FC Barcelona will be looking for a perfect revenge in the match against Hercules
FC Barcelona will be travelling to Alicante for their La Liga engagement against Hercules CF. Nobody would have imagined this at the start of the campaign. Twenty match into this season, the only team which has managed to defeat this Barcelona side in the League was the newly promoted Hercules. Hercules played in the first division in the 1996-97 season last time and surprisingly they won both their encounters with FC Barcelona that season. Those defeat cost us the title to Real madrid that season. Barca will be making sure that a repeat of that does not happen this time around. Not only they will be making sure of that, but also would love to extract revenge for that minor blip at the very start of the season. But one thing is for sure, Madrid is very much expecting Hercules to do them a big favour. To make matters worse for the Capital side our flying right back, Dani Alves has been declared fit and has been included in the squad. The entire squad list is Valdés, Pinto, Alves, Adriano, Piqué, Milito, Fontàs, Abidal, Maxwell, Mascherano, Busquets, Keita, Xavi, Iniesta, Afellay, Messi, Villa, Pedro and Nolito.
Puyol has been ruled out because of injury and Bojan is also missing from the sqaud as he is down with a stomach bug. Nolito and Fontas has been added to the squad from the Barca B team. Barca team in full would be very motivated for this encounter. As Guardiola said in the press conference we cannot let giving Real Madrid any glimmer of hope. Hercules coach has expressed his belief in defeating this Barca side agian, but an inform Iniesta, messi, Xavi, Villa and Pedro could be too hot to handle for him. In the absence of Puyol, Guardiola is expected to line up Alves, Abidal, Pique and Maxwell in the defense infront of Valdes. The rest of the line-up is not expected to change much with Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta in midfield and Villa, Messi and Pedro as the front trio. This could be a bit tricky travel for us. But we can expect our boys to be extremely motivated. I would predict 3-0 victory for us. ok, that's my brain speaking but my heart is saying - Give me another Manita.