The players are emerging from the tunnel and kick off is just seconds away!
This is Barcelona’s final friendly ahead of the new season (Juventus still have one more next weekend against Atalanta) as they begin their first campaign without Messi since his debut for the club in 2003.
Juventus, meanwhile, put out a strong lineup; even if most of their Italian stars from the Euros are only able to feature from the bench today.
Barcelona will at least have some new signings starting: Demir and Depay will be keen to provide some consolation to the fans today.
SUBS: Carlo Pinsoglio, Mattia Perin, Giorgio Chiellini, Danilo, Leonardo Bonucci, Koni De Winter, Weston McKennie, Luca Pellegrini, Federico Chiesa, Filippo Ranocchia, Dejan Kulusevski, Alejandro Marques.
JUVENTUS (4-4-2): Wojciech Szczesny; Mattia De Sciglio, Matthijs de Ligt, Daniele Rugani, Alex Sandro; Federico Bernardeschi, Rodrigo Bentancur, Aaron Ramsey, Juan Cuadrado; Alvaro Morata, Cristiano Ronaldo.
SUBS: Alex Callado, Emerson, Inaki Pena, Miralem Pjanic, Nico Gonzalez, Philippe Coutinho, Rey Manaj, Ricard Puig, Samuel Umtiti.
BARCELONA (4-2-3-1): Neto; Sergino Dest, Gerard Pique, Ronald Araujo, Jordi Alba; Sergio Busquets, Sergi Roberto; Martin Braithwaite, Memphis Depay, Yusuf Demir; Antoine Griezmann.
It’s been a turbulent week for Barcelona. On Thursday it was announced Lionel Messi would not sign a new contract with the club after financial issues at the Catalan side left them unable to pay the Argentinian’s wages. It’ll feel unnatural to see Barcelona without their iconic attacker, and today will offer us the first glimpse of a new era at the club.
Hello and welcome to live commentary of this pre-season friendly between Barcelona and Juventus in the Joan Gamper trophy.
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