As one of the champions of Spanish league champions this season, barcelona can be said to start their steps in the 2017-2018 season well. They successfully occupy second place league standings after winning two wins in two league opening parties. For that they are determined to continue the trend of victory in the third jornada later.
The opponent they will face later this third jornada is none other than their own neighbor, espanyol. The party derby catalan true is a lame derby match because barcelona is so dominant in this party, where they won 5 of the 6 derby parties and all competitions
Although the derby is not an interesting thing to watch but, but the fans are enthusiastic barcelona want to see the action permissibility of their latest recruit, ousmane dembele in this fight.
As it is known barcelona brought ousmane dembele from borusia dortmund to replace naymar who migrated to PSG. The team from Catalan spent quite a lot of 105 million euros.
In this match the coach ernesto valverde in the sure can not reduce rafinha due to injury, while iva rakitic masi in doubt his condition to appear, but good news about suarez is likely to be able to appear after injury at the beginning of last season
Valverde is predicted to use the 4-3-3 scheme in this match, where the dembele will be coupled with suarez and messi as a knockout el blaugrana, raftic positions likely to be filled by Sergi Roberto in midfield, while the central defender post will be filled by samuel umtiti and gerard pique.
In the camp the visitors are also many players who are on the injury ahead of the road ahead to the camp nou. Recorded oscar duarte and javi lopez in the absence due to injury, while alvaro vazques and diago lopez in the sure still in doubt because their condition has not been stable to perform.
In this match flores will most likely play a 4-4-2 scheme in which he will play gerard moreno and leo baptistao
As their interpreter in this fight, while jose manuel jurado and pablo piatti will be tasked with assisting the attack from the wing sector, in midfield javi fuegeo and pepe diop to control the flow of the ball, while pau lopez will be on the plot to be their goalie this time.
Estimate of the order of players
Barcelona: 4-3-3. Teregen, alba, umtiti, pique, somedo, s.roberto, busquets, iniesta, dembele, suarez, messi.
Espanyol: 4-4-2. P. Lopez, martin, d. Lopez, naldo, sanchez, piatti, feugeo, diop, jurado, baptistao, moreno.
Head to head
30/04/17 espanyol 0-3 barcelona (la league)
19/12/16 barcelona 4- 1 espanyol (la league)
26/10/16 barcelona 0- 1 espanyol (sdc)
08/05/16 barcelona 5- 0 espanyol (la league)
14/01/16 espanyol 0- 2 barcelona (sdc)
The last five games are barcelona
08/08/17 barcelona 5-0 chapesoense (tjg)
14/08/17 barcelona 1-3 real madrid (sde)
17/08/17 real madrid 2-0 barcelona (sde)
21/08/17 barcelona 2-0 real calf (la league)
26/08/17 depertivo alaves 0-2 barcelona (la league)
Five games espanyol
03/08/17 twente 0 - 0 espanyol (trials)
06/08/17 hamburger 1- 1 espanyol (trials)
12/08/17 napoli 2- 0 espanyol (trials)
20/08 / 17sevilla 1-1 espanyol (la league)
27/08 espanyol 0-1 leganes (la league)
Prediction barcelona vs espanyol 3-1
