Sevilla and Barcelona are played on Sunday at the Ramon
Sanchez Pizjuan and Wednesday at the Camp Nou the title of Supercopa of Spain
and also the confidence of their respective interests in the projects of Jorge
Sampaoli and Luis Enrique, after the defensive doubts raised in preseason.
Sevilla and Barcelona will again face each other in a
final after the 2016 Cup, which Luis Enrique won in overtime 2-0, and the European
Super Cup last year, in which barcelonistas also prevailed 5-4 in extra time
after a vibrant party that rallied to Sevilla.
Sevilla Argentine Sampaoli be presented before their fans
after the painful drubbing suffered in the final of the European Super Cup
losing to Real Madrid and, despite the good game displayed at times by
sevillistas, he has been left in the air any doubt about the idea of Santa
Fe.
Despite blind faith and the non-negotiable nature of its
concept, Sampaoli faces a demanding test that should align its plan with the
defensive solvency for the Sevilla fans ratify the reliability of the new
project, although his team still in filming.
Nor can enter the call the substitute goalkeeper, David
Soria, who last Thursday three phalanges of his right hand is broken and will
be sidelined for five to six weeks, so Sampaoli must use one of the goalkeepers
of the subsidiary.
Consequently, the area with more problems will be the
center of defense and could give the opportunity to enter the newly built
sevillista eleven Argentine defender Gabriel Mercado.
After winning the league, the Spanish Cup, the Club World
Cup and the European Super Cup last season, Barcelona kicks off a new season
quarreling, against Sevilla, the first leg of the Supercopa of Spain, a title
which, if achieved, it would be the eighth conquered by Luis Enrique Martinez
from sitting on the Barca bench.
The Catalan team will face this first act of the final
without striker Neymar da Silva and midfielder Rafinha, who are disputing the
Olympics with Brazil, and Marc-André ter Stegen, low goalkeeper with a sprained
knee.
Also doubt whether defender Jordi Alba, who on Saturday
returned to normal after exercise stringing several physical problems that
prevented him released in preseason games, is able to enter the starting
lineup.
The absence of Ter Stegen closed, for now, the debate in
goal and reconfirms the ownership of the Chilean Claudio Bravo, and lack of
shooting Jordi Alba would give the square side lefty French Lucas Digne, one of
the new signings Barca.
And the central Samuel Umtiti wait their turn in the
rear, where the pairing of Gerard Pique and Javier Mascherano has all the
numbers to form the shaft.
The two doubts in the starting eleven will be the right
side -Sergi Roberto and Aleix Vidal struggle to keep the position vacated by
Dani Alves- and companion Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez pointed.
During these weeks of preparation, the players elected by
Luis Enrique to complete the offensive trident in the absence of Neymar have
been the Turkish Arda Turan and the young Munir El Haddadi, however, could
leave the club on loan if finally the Catalan club closes hiring a striker.
Defensive frailty was the only but a team that, again led
by a sublime Messi, has offered good feeling.
The aim of this Barcelona is to regain the strength to
break back to Seville and achieve the twelfth Supercopa of Spain of its
history, which would strengthen him as the team most capped gando this
competition.