⚽The player of the Real Madrid Asensio returns to a list without Achraf or Kroos⚽
The Madrid player Marco Asensio is the novelty of the Real Madrid squad list to close the group stage in the Champions League against the Borussia Dortmund team, with the discards of Achraf Hakimi and Toni Kroos on the part of the team coach Zinedine Zidane.
The player Marco Asensio returns after a slight injury and while the Welshman Gareth Bale is still low by
a discomfort in his left soleus. Although the D.T. Zidane can not count on the player Dani Carvajal, sanctioned, leaves out his natural substitute, the Moroccan player named Achraf by technical decision and gives rest to the German player Toni Kroos
In the list of players summoned are: Keylor Navas, Kiko Casilla, Nacho, Sergio Ramos, Varane, Marcelo, Theo, Casemiro, Marcos Llorente, Kovacic, Modric, Ceballos, Marco Asensio, Isco, Lucas Vázquez, Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema and Borja Mayoral.
⚽The D.T. of Barcelona Valverde explained why Messi did not start from the start against the team against Sporting de Portugal⚽
The D.T. Barcelona Ernesto Valverde has achieved two wonders before unthinkable during his first season as a coach. While the star Lionel Messi does not play and every second of every game. And Barcelona now has a defense whose quality is on par with the one that has been exhibiting the attack for years. This is the second time that the Barcelona coach, Valverde, overturned the policy followed by his predecessors, who were the ones who placed of the beginning to the Argentine star called Lionel Messi practically in all the parties of League of Champions. On Tuesday, the "Flea" Lionel Messi rested during the first hour of the match that his team ended up winning 2-0 at Sporting Lisbon, in the last round of the group stage.
The player Messi entered the 62 minutes of the game, just three after Paco Alcácer scored the goal that gave the home advantage at their Camp Nou stadium. "We played every three days, and being a match in which there was less at stake, you have to make decisions like this: reserve players," explained Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde. "We are in the month of December and we have a lot left. The players understand. "
The rosarino participated in the play of the second goal, with an advance pass for the player Denis Suarez, whose center was deflected by the defender of the Portuguese club Jeremy Mathieu to his own goal, in the discounts. Recently, the Argentine star Messi said these words that, at 30 years of age, he understands that "the year is long and every day we have to take better care of ourselves, because the seasons are getting tougher".
His teammate Ivan Rakitic coincides with the decision made by the coach and with the words of Messi
"It's good that he's fine in every game, and you have to take good care of him," Croatian midfielder Ivan Rakitic said. Messi also did not play from the beginning in the game that was played a couple of weeks ago, in that match a goalless draw was achieved on the court of the Juventus team. He was employed as a substitute in the complement."Whenever Messi enters the field you think that everything will go better, we know he channels us the attacking game, both for his ability to finish, and to give those passes that nobody sees", this was what Valverde commented. "We know this, but the problem is that the rivals also know it."
The "Blaugrana" club also confirmed that Barcelona's coach Valverde has a new weapon: he discourages the rivals by means of an ironclad defense. The player Neymar took all his unrivaled genius to the Paris Saint-Germain team before this season, but Valverde DT of Barcelona has taken the opportunity to put more care to the defensive work.
The Barcelona team received only one goal during the 6th match played in the group stage, and it has the best defense of the Spanish league, along with that of Atlético de Madrid, with seven goals received in 14 played dates.
Barcelona technical director Ernesto Valverde said on Tuesday his desire for his team to dominate all matches and also generate opportunities at the front. When this is not viable, assess the strength behind. "We tried to dominate from the beginning, they had to take a step forward and we managed to score, they opened more and we had more chances," he also spoke about the victory over Sporting.
The Barcelona team already had the classification and first place in Group D on the stock exchange. Under these conditions, the technical director Ernesto Valverde placed from the first minute players who are usually substitutes in Barcelona. In addition to Alcácer and Suárez, they played Andre Gomes Thomas Vermaelen, Lucas Digne, Aleix Vidal and the goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen.
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