In order to recover from the defeat suffered at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday the Italian cast of AS Roma jumps to the gramado AT & T Stadium in Arlington, Texas to face a diminished Barcelona of Spain, in game corresponding to the International Champions Cup.
Barcelona:
Those led by Ernesto Valverde could not maintain the level of the first forty-five minutes in his debut against Tottenham Hotspur, and so after going to the break by 2-0 up, with fifteen minutes to go the English box equaled the score, happily the definition from the penalty point favored the Blaugrana.
Barcelona still can not count on the presence of its main leaders such as Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho who are still on vacation for their participation in the last World Cup Russia 2018, and they are joined by Andrés Iniesta’s Asian football and Paulinho; but despite this the Blaugranas want to add their first victory of the preseason.
AS Roma:
For their part, those led by Eusebio Di Francesco could not get away from their debut against the Spurs who defeated them by a convincing 4-1, this defeat has taken a deep dive in the technical team that has decided to make many modifications to play against the Spanish box and so Kolarov, Dzeko, Pastore and Perotti will leave from the going and thus get a result that allows to gain confidence for the closing of the preseason against Real Madrid.
The last time these teams met was in the quarterfinals of the last edition of the UEFA Champions League, which ultimately fell to the Italian team after an entertaining series that began with the Catalan triumph 4-1 but then in the Olympic of Rome the Italian cast took revenge and won 3-0. With this victory La Loba broke a four-game losing streak without beating the Blaugrana.
Possible alignments:
Barcelona: Gillessen; Roberto, Mingueza, Lenglet, Miranda; Arthur, Gomes, Malcom, Denis Suárez; Alcacer, Munir.
AS Roma: Fuzato; Fazio, Manolas, Jesus; Florenzi, Kolarov, Pastore, De Rossi, Strootman; Under, Dzeko.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1.42
