translated from Spanish: Arturo Vidal would start at the bank on Barcelona’s visit to Mallorca

The leader FC Barcelona visits on Saturday the RCD Mallorca in Son Moix, in the resumption of the Spanish league after the arrest by coronavirus, with the intention of defending his lead and revalidating the title, against a Mallorca that seeks, without its people, to leave the red zone. It’s almost three months without football, no competition, and the unknown of how they’ll get back one and the other is there. Barca has 11 rounds to defend the two-point lead that takes him to Real Madrid, his top opponent in the title fight. Mallorca, has emergencies to get out of the well. For this crossing, Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal fights Ivan Rakitic and Arthur a place in the starting team. However, the Croatian would be chosen by Setién to go from the game against Mallorca.Maximum contradictions in a duel that is nevertheless reached from scratch. Both Mallorca and Barca must assimilate how coronavirus affects this concentrated final stretch of season. It is clear that the ‘field factor’ loses weight, in this case, to the detriment of the Balearic Islands. But beyond uncertainties that will plan over all the stadiums, the truth is that Mallorca knows that it has more to gain than to lose, and Barca is quite the opposite. If he loses, and Madrid wins, he will vanish that slight advantage he had retained during confinement. The ‘bells’ are in another league, no one will criticize them for losing to the leader, let alone in an empty Son Moix, lacking his people. On the other hand, adding up would be to take air and energy for the rest of the final ten, being as they are at a point of salvation. On the other hand, Barca has the pressure to open this return to normality well, to the ‘new normal’. In the previous, the coach, Quique Setién, assured that, following the Cruyff philosophy, he prefers to play before the opponent to have the feeling of having done his homework, whether he wins or not. It will be four days, the first post-confinement, in which Barca will play before Real Madrid. If they win, they’ll put pressure on the opponent. If they lose, in a way, also because they would be forced to win to take advantage of the stumble. Hence Set also prefers this scenario that has touched them. Or that you’d rather be optimistic. At the moment it is the physical situation of two of its stars. Luis Suarez, operated in January in the knee and who was going to miss the season, is ed tall and ready to be a starter, although not for the 90 minutes, or be alternative from the bench. And Messi, the ’10’, the captain, is fine. She suffered a small injury in the form of a contracture in last week’s right quadriceps, but already left her behind. Together with Suarez they are the top scorers of the team in this League, and it seems that they will be ‘confinement signings’, especially in the case of the Uruguayan. Likely alignments.-RCD MALLORCA: Queen; Well, Valjent, Raíllo, Gámez; Dani Rodríguez, Baba, Salva Sevilla, Kubo; Budimir and Cucho Hernández.FC BARCELONA: Ter Stegen; Sergi Roberto, Piqué, Umtiti, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Rakitic, De Jong; Messi, Suarez and Griezmann.

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