FC Barcelona has this Saturday (7:00 p.m., LaLigaSportsTVPlus) its last test before the Spanish Cup dispute next week. Your first visit to The Bombonerathe new track Antonio Caba Pavilion of Manzanares in Ciudad Real, in which there are no more tickets and will offer a full house, with more than 600 spectators, should serve the azulgranas to reaffirm the eight points of advantage at the head of the First Division League (LNFS) ahead of Palm Futsal and before your next appointment at the Cup in Jaén, from March 31 to April 3.
Manzanares FS Cheese El Hidalgo is the rival of the leader, fighting for permanence and on an upward trajectory who will try to put up a fight against the group of Jesus Velasco in an unprecedented duel in the domestic futsal competition. The manchegos are three points from relegation and have three games in a row without knowing defeat, after going from less to more after strengthening themselves in the winter market with Brazilian center ex-Benfica Fits.
The big news in Barca futsal is the return of the brazilian international left winger Matheusafter recovering from a sprain in the internal lateral ligament of his left knee that he suffered in the Copa América a month and a half ago.
MATHEUS, IN; ESQUERDINHA AND FERRAO, OUT
By contrast, the sensitive Absences due to Esquerdinha’s injurybecause of a blow to the right ankle received in the first part of the last league game against Real Betis at the Palau on Wednesday (6-1), and from the Pichichi Ferraowith fibrillar rupture in the biceps femoris of the right thigh suffered in training seven days ago and that complicates his chances of being back for the Spanish Cup dispute.
The blaugrana expedition heading to Manzanares is composed, in this way, by eleven players: Didac, Michael Feixas, Ortiz, Andre Coelho, marcenium, Povill, Dyego, Adolf, Sergio Lozano, Matheus and Whistle.
THE ILLUSION OF MATHEUS
Matheus He has been very excited about his return to the Barça team, after leaving behind his injury of almost two months: “I really want to play again and help the team; before the injury I was very well, and I hope to be able to recover this level soon and show that I can be an important player here at Barca”.
At the same time, Andre Coelho has praised his former teammate Fits at Benfica, now in Manzanares -“it is a great player very difficult to stop and very competitive“- and has warned of the danger of the rival and of thinking ahead of time in the Cup: “We know from experience of the difficulty of these matches before major competitionsso we must be with the head one hundred percent to avoid disappointment“.