In the first leg Barcelona ended the hopes of the Polish champions by winning 4-0 in an enthusiastic performance. Actually it was more of an shooting practice for all 90 minutes, Wisla failing to create any decent chances to score. Despite finishing the job, Guardiola decided to call up his best team for this match, as wants his team to build momentum for the start of the Spanish League, and also he wants his players to have more official matches played. In friendlies the team played very well, not a single defeat, and many high scoring wins, they even made Fiorentina look like amateurs beating them 3-1.
Barca squad for this match:
Goalkeepers: Victor Valdés, Jose Pinto, Pedro Miño
Defenders: Rafael Márquez, Daniel Alves, Eric Abidal, Carles Puyol, Martin Cáceres, Gerard Piqué, Sylvinho
Midfielders: Xavi, Anders Iniesta, Alieksandr Hleb, Seidou Keita, Yaya Touré
Forwards: Bojan Krkiæ, Samuel Eto'o, Thierry Henry, Eidur Gudjohnsen
So you can see, except for Messi who was left at home to recover after a long and exhausting Olympic Games, every player available was called on, even Dani Alves recovered after an injury, is set to take some part of this match.
Wisla Krakow after defeating Israeli side Beitar in the second round showed they are no match for their more illustrious opponent here. They had some problems in the defence missing some players, and for this match the coach still has a headache electing the first 11. Cantoro, Sobolewski, Baszcinsky are out of the team for this match, also Glowacki is a doubt. Since the match with Barcelona, Wisla won 2 home league matches. Barcelona should prove a too harder task to complete for Wisla, and I expect another win for the catalan side.
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