Tuesday 11 September 2007

A final full of experiments

FC Barcelona take on Nàstic in Palamós tonight in the final of the 19th Catalonia Cup. Manager Frank Rijkaard has just 5 players from the senior squad available for the match.

With the bulk of the senior squad away on international duty, Barça will have to play the final of the Catalonia Cup with an experimental team – as they did in the semi-final last week. Frank Rijkaard has just five first team players available - Valdés, Jorquera, Sylvinho, Oleguer and Ezquerro- for tonight’s final in the New Municipal stadium in Palamós (21.45h, Barça TV and TV3).

Majority from Barça B
The rest of the squad is composed of thirteen players from Barça B and two from the youth team. Rijkaard looks set to continue with the policy adopted in the semi-final against Girona and hand their senior debuts to four players from the reserve squad (Fali, Abraham, Víctor Sánchez and Pedrito). This will be the first time any of them has been included in the first team squad.

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