Barça places the management at stake
Put land in between. Barça returns to the Champions League with the agency thought of persevering with to keep up its continental dominance regardless of lately misplaced the Tremendous Globe with the German Magdeburg. Antonio Carlos Ortega’s 17 gamers return to the Palau (as we speak, 8:45 p.m.) to face a onerous rival, the French Nantes, second in Group B to a victory of the unbeaten Barça that has 5 of 5.
A victory for the Catalans would consolidate their lead towards an opponent who has simply misplaced their first recreation within the home league towards Limoges (35-31) and that within the Champions League he has solely fallen towards Kielce (40-33). A particular recreation for the goalkeeper Emil Nielsen who this 12 months has modified the shirt of the French for Barça’s; a major loss that was added to that of Dragan Pechmalbec (Veszprém), David Balaguer (PSG) and the withdrawal of Kiril Lazarov; along with his coach Alberto Entrerríos (Limoges).
To make up for the absences, a brand new coach has arrived, Gregory Cojean, and numerous transfers. Amongst them, Kauldi Odriozola (from Bidasoa) and Jorge Maqueda (from Vezprem), two Spaniards who be part of pivot Marchán and Valero Rivera Jr. They’ve additionally integrated goalkeepers Hallgrimsson and Hofmann, and pivot Toto. A present of top on the Palau… that the good star of Nantes, the center-back and prime scorer Aymeric Minne, will miss out on after present process surgical procedure for an ankle harm which is able to take him roughly 4 months off.
