Wednesday is the day we get some vengeance!! Wait, it sounds a bit rude... Let's see, today Kazan, tomorrow Europe!! Mmm, not getting there quite yet. So, we win Kazan, we get ourselves half the ticket to next Champions League round. Ok, now?
This match is more important than it seems, as the next match would be against Dinamo Kiev in what may be worse weather conditions. It's the time to assure Barça's classifies.
These are the ones that go to Kazan:
Valdés, Pinto, Puyol, Abidal, Maxwell, Márquez, Piqué, Touré Yaya, Sergio Busquets, Keita, Xavi, Iniesta, Henry, Messi, Pedro, Jeffren, Ibrahimovic y Bojan.
Also,
Alves may be back, he has recovered from his muscular injury and is travelling with the team just in case. His side of the team is hurting without him, Osasuna's goal came from that side and Marquez's shape isn't helping either.
Henry and Touré are also going with the team and may play as both are also recovered and ready to play.
Tomorrow we'll post the usual lineup guess. (even Kazan's)
There's a lot of talk in the press about the weather in Kazan. It's expected that at the playing time, 20:30 local time (2 hours less in Barcelona) there could be from 0 ºC to -6 ºC with some wind wich could worsen the overall cold feeling. We have not to worry about the playing field, as Russian stadiums are prepared with under earth heating.
Weather forecast for this week at Kazan (at least it won't snow tomorrow!!)
More info:
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Barcelona looking to get back on track in Russia (ESPN Soccernet)
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Champions League Preview - Rubin Kazan vs Barcelona (World Soccer News)
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Dani Alves makes early return as Barça travel to Russia (ESPN Soccernet)
