With one eye on this Tuesday's European duel against Naples, where their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League will be at stake, Barcelona opens matchday 28 of the League this Friday by hosting a Mallorca side that is considered the best moment of the season after qualifying to play in the Copa del Rey final and beating Girona. The Blaugrana lineup is conditioned both by the closeness of the match against the Neapolitans and by the casualties. Marc Guiu will be the reference in attack, while Lewandowski and Vitor Roque start the game from the bench.
Against Mallorca, Barcelona has two new casualties: those of Frenkie de Jong and Pedri, two fundamental pieces in the midfield who were injured in San Mamés and who join those of Gavi, Balde, Marcos Alonso and Ferran Torres, although these last two are completing the final stretch of their recovery. That is the other reason why the coach, sanctioned for an accumulation of cards, has shaken up the lineup. Raphinha drops back to take up a place as an inside player while João Félix, a substitute at San Mamés, returns to the eleven at the left end of the attack.
Without the possibility of using the fourth midfielder, the Barça team's coach returns to 4-3-3 in a team in which center back Ronald Araújo, who is suspended, will not be there either. The Uruguayan's place will be occupied by Iñigo Martínez as a partner in the rear axis of the young Pau Cubarsí. In the midfield, Gündogan and Christensen repeat, in what is their seventh consecutive game as a pivot.
The FC Barcelona eleven: Ter Stegen; Koundé, Cubarsi, Inigo Martinez, Cancelo, Christensen, Gündogan, Raphinha, Lamine Yamal, João Felix and Marc Guiu.
For its part, Mexican coach Javier Aguirre's Mallorca will appear in Barcelona at the best moment of the season after qualifying to play the final of the Copa del Rey against Athletic Club and beating Girona in Son on the last day of the League. Moix.
It's all good news at the Balearic club since last week. On April 6, they will fight in Seville to lift the Cup twenty-one years later, a circumstance that has unleashed euphoria among their fans, and increased the distance from relegation to 8 points after their victory against the Catalan team.
Aguirre has the entire squad available with the exception of midfielder Omar Mascarell, suspended due to an accumulation of warnings, and center back Martín Valjent, with physical discomfort.
The eleventh of Mallorca: Rajković; Gio, Nastasic, Rail, Cope, Lato; Sam Coast, Darder, Morlanes; Muriqi and Cyle Larin.
