Probable Lineups
4-3-3
3-4-3
Probable Lineups Statistical Comparison
* Values in brackets (x) are overall player statistics in LaLiga.
Missing Players
Barcelona
Real Betis
Player | Reason | Status | Rating |
---|---|---|---|
Thomas Vermaelen | Out | 6.4 | |
Samuel Umtiti | Out | 6.6 | |
Philippe Coutinho | Out | 6.93 | |
Lionel Messi | Doubtful | 8.48 |
Player | Reason | Status | Rating |
---|---|---|---|
Javi García | Out | 6.38 | |
Francis Guerrero | Doubtful | 6.63 |
Team News
Barcelona
Real Betis
- Philippe Coutinho is another injury concern for Ernesto Valverde and will be out until the end of the month.
- Lionel Messi is a doubt as he recovers from a broken arm and will unlikely be risked until after the international break.
- Ousmane Dembele should start out on the left wing after recovering from illness. Malcom will hope to feature after scoring his first Barcelona goal in midweek.
- Francis is still a doubt due to a knock for the visitors, which will likely see Antonio Barragan feature at right-back.
- William Carvalho is expected to anchor the midfield to give other midfielders license to push on.
- Loren Moron should be given the nod to lead the line for Quique Setien's side.
no man. for me. valverde wanted to make messi the man man in attack. started shifting saurez too much. where as. during luise enrique time. both saurez and messi scored lots of goals an messi was playing as a winger. i dnt know what position messi plays now. and if messi is gona be your main attacking guy. then you have problems.
i think switchint malcolm for munir was a mistake. Vidal is a much needed player... as u said many times before. Hope the coach learns to apriciate him.
Messi the winger playing all over the middle of the pitch . No positional awareness. Gets a MoTM. Whoscored ratings are a joke.
@yash8117 Messi's statistic more than others (shots, keypasses, touches, and goals). Thats realistic. Except you are Messi's hatter
"No positional awareness" - LOL! What sport are you watching?
@yash8117 You must've started watching football today.
this result is deserved for barca, messi being selfish and not being 100% fit yet wants to play so suarez doesn't outscore him and get near the golden boot, its barca's fault, they have made messi bigger than the club
@realnews Wow..hey u have dropped ur brain..lol
@realnews, stupid kid.
@realnews lol, you cracked me up
Like if You think Messi is the best player in the world!
@Mayar neymar is you fool
@realnews, best diver maybe.
@realnews who is neymar btw?
Messi came back and Suarez returned bad form. Suarez has to sacrificed himself for Messi
@Senior Oh yeah! Suarez sacrificed by missing many chanes? Nice joke!
@Senior He also didn't score against Inter.
@Senior I didn't any sacrifice but I did see several bad passes and poor decision making from Suarez. He can't blame Messi for that. The fact is Suarez is up and down a lot in his passing and build-up play, however, he is a little bit sharper in finishing as compared to pre-El Classio time.
Busquet deserve 5 rating,
Messi playing with a broken arm and still scored twice ?? :-O
@neumi17 Still broken? Even if was he playing with his hands?
@neumi17 is it still broken?
@john2james He broke it 3 weeks ago. It needs 6 weeks for a bone to heal and 8 weeks to be fully resilient against stress again.
@john2james He is playing as nothing happens but I believe it takes at least a month for the bone structure to grow back. This is my speaking from personal experience.
@darksouls That explains why Betis take advantage of Messi's weak fitness to score 4 goals in Camp nou. Bad move by Barcelona, especially Barcelona thrashed Real Madrid without Messi 5-1.
@darksouls Dembele has not included as Barcelona fears about his fitness and they allow to play Messi with the broken arm?
@john2james dembele's attitude problems have cost him, valverde wants to get rid of him
Cant believe that awful player Arturo Vidal almost saved Barcelona. Comedy player who only knows how to injure opponents! but thanks to the God Betis still won! Justice excists! Bravo Betis! Piss off Arturo!
@stefanm - For a comedy player his career has been pretty good. He started throughout his career for club and country, won the Serie A and the Bundesliga countless times, Copa América twice, and was the cornerstone of several teams that went deep into the Champions League. For a regular player, that's crapola, but for a comedy player, that's pretty good.
Looks like no team fears to play spanish sharks nowadays. Real madrid winning 3 champions league in a row turned la liga into a clown fiesta. Players dont look like they are enjoying playing football on weekends unless they are facing a top 5 team. This mindset that anything but winning champions league is a season failure has killed what used to be the spotlight for the most attractive football. Barcelona with their fully fit squad should be sending teams back to the airport by half time.
on the positive side, Messi looked sharp. Had some amazing runs and passes were on point. We need to get better defensively. We can't have both S.Roberto and Alba going forward on every possession especially when playing 4-3-3. It exposes Barcelona defensively especially when both Busquets and Arthur are so slow running back to cover defensively. Real Betis had a great game plan and they deserved the win.
@delllello Alba was actually ok. He won a lot of balls. But Roberto is simply a disaster. Keep using this guy and Barca will never ever have another CL in Messi's era. Just see the rating of Firpo Junior (best of Betis team), we can see how Roberto is. The Whoscored rating favors attacking players. That's why Roberto is not at the bottom of the list. Rakitic was horrible but it all started with Sergi Roberto.
By the way Lo Celso a PSG loanee had a shout for motm too, he was running circles around Busquets Rakitic and Arthur.
How was Messi motm? What a joke, Betis player Junior was the best. Barcelona play better without Messi, he ruins everyone's true potential.
@kaalia, 2 goals, 5 key passes and 7 dribbles. Best player on the pitch...
@kaalia Without Messi, this game should be 4-0. He scored 1 open goal and had 2 key passes, one led to a penalty (which he scored himself) and one set up Munir to assist Vidal's goal. That's why he was the MOTM. If you are not another Messi-hater then you must be pretty ignorant and uneducated in term of football knowledge. Firpo Junior is the best in Betis team simply because of how horrible defensively Roberto is.
@darksouls the bottom line is Barca with Messi lost 3 points to Real Betis. Barca without Messi won Real Madrid, Inter Milan...
@darksouls This is just fanboy nonsense, Barcelona were doing great and were playing more like a team without Messi, yes he scored from a penalty which was a very harsh decision by the ref and scored another tapin, but his defensive work and positioning makes Barcelona a lot weaker on the counter attacks, as was the case, Suarez has to make way for Messi the poor lad.
@kaalia It's no fanboy nonsense, the guy makes chances for his teammates few others can. People who don't know football only look at goals, those who are interested look at the assists and playmakers too. Watching Messi is the best way for a simple mind to learn and appreciate that side of football, It is true that he sucks at defense, but that's pretty generic for talented offensive players. Lo Celso is actually a great ex of an offensive mid who can tackle.
@kaalia by creating countless chances and scoring countless goals?
@GioMonaldo He scored from a penalty, Barcelona have plenty of players capable of scoring from the spot, and he scored a tapin. Ref gave Barcelona a free penalty and Munir was offside for Vidal's goal, and VAR let the goal stand, complete joke.
@kaalia By your way of speaking, you are clearly a Messi hater. My argument is at least backed by facts and the Whoscored system. Yours is not. It is pretty nonsense to have any rational debate with you.
@darksouls oh, so according to whoscored, neymar is the best player in the world you clown, as he was the #1 rated player in europes's top 5 leagues in 2016-17 & 2017-18
@realnews Sometimes, just before Neymar moved to PSG. He was actually playing better than Messi. Right now, it is hard measure his greatness because of the level of the opponents he plays against in the French League. TBO, if Neymar can improve his consistency in finishing, he can get very close to Messi's level considering Messi has already passed his prime. You don't have to be a Messi hater to enjoy the greatness of Neymar. I myself really enjoy Neymar's style of playing. He's clearly in the top three of my book.
@darksouls and my point about messi costing barca, is legit, the guy isnt 100%, instead of coming on from the bench he starts the match, why? of course he got worried about suarez hot streak, suarez didnt have one clear goal chance today, compare what neymar does for mbappe, messi is selfish, he wants to be at the heart of all the attacks and this has a negative impact, when neymar was their suarez was lucky he was getting double service so his goal numbers were a lot higher but since he's left he has to let messi shine.
@realnews Messi pass Suarez for a goal chance. He didn't convert it. Go watch again.
@darksouls i'm not being a messi hater, and yes neymar is the best player in the world, but the messi loving media blindly hate him for that, neymar has 3 motm awards in his 4 games this season in the cl, also he was psg's best player against liverpool, he was the best player of the group stages last season in the cl, ok he didnt have the best of games against madrid but he was injured in the 2nd leg, also psg team overall is nothing compared to juve barca man city, psg have a joke defnce, they let in goals for free per match in the cl, hows that neymars fault? also remember neymar is the most fouled player in the world.
Barca have 99 problems but making La Liga more competitive ain't one of 'em.
Betis is the best LoLiga team.
@dzvinka Lolwhat? LOL because they laugh at the rest of the so called "competition" from inferior leagues like Seria A and Premier League?
S Roberto & Rakitic were terrible today.
@delllello They surely were.
Does anyone wanna win la liga this year?
@MathCatsFootball yeah at least the table is close
Betis scored 1 away goal in 5 games this season. Now they score 4 at Camp Nou xD
whats the point of having defenders
@offside what defenders? Barca is the first team in La Liga to play without a defense. Revolutionary.
Why munir and alena when you can put semedo and move roberto to midfield. We needed the speed of Malcom...
Barca are shocking.They seem to play badly with Messi playing.
So as soon as Messi comes back, Barca are playing their worst game all season and are losing 0-2 by half-time's end? Coincidence? For sure, Messi provides almost no defensive support, which I think is one of the reasons why Barca's defense is worse with Messi on the pitch.
@Pico09 By the way, I'm not saying Barca would ultimately be better off without Messi. What i'm saying is Messi needs to change how and where he plays for Barca to be a better team. If Messi played more wider to the right and more like a forward (like Ronaldo), then that would solve a lot of the problems I percieve in this team.
@Pico09 5 midfielders and 1 striker can give more control and defensive solidity and suit Barca quite well especially with special skills such as Coutinho cannon.
@Pico09 Agreed.
@Pico09 Rakitic got a red card-----Messi's fault; Barca let Betis score 4 away goals------Messi's fault; Barca scored 3------has nothing to do with Messi. lol what a hater.
@david20921 You're replying with straw man arguments. Nothing of what you said refutes my claim that "Messi provides almost no defensive support, which is one of the reasons why Barca's defense is worse with Messi on the pitch". Do you think that Messi actually does provide defensive support? I'm actually a Messi fan by the way, but I think it's pretty clear his almost non-existent defensive contributions hurts the team, and so does the way Messi dictates the how, where, and when of Barca's attack. In this game it couldn't be more apparent as Betis absolutely destroyed Barca's right-wing because Barca didn't have an attacking presence on said area that would keep Betis busy and at a disadvantage - look at how much space and time they had to work with. Instead they had complete control over that area, seemingly attacking without any resistance. All this leads back to Messi because he forces a teammate to fill the void left on the rightwing, and THAT destabilizes the team.
@Pico09 You clearly have no clue how Barcelona plays as a team... Go look up some Cruyff you schmuck and learn some basic football
@Flash_is_back Why even bother with an ad hominem reply?
@Pico09 So you come to this conclusion after a single match, in which Messi plays fine by the way, even while not entirely fit. That would be the same as concluding you are an idiot for making this one stupid statement. But the latter seems more justified since Messi has about 600+ games proving otherwise.
@jeremy3112 I didn't come to any new conclusions about Messi after this match; this match only served to reinforce my belief that Barca are defensively inferior with Messi in the team, for a few but very consequential reasons.
@Pico09 Wow, what a discovery! Barca let 3 goals because Messi didn't defend well. Lol.. Truth is every else is playing poorly.. may be they are exhausted.. or they think now that Messi is back, they can relax and he will take care of everything.. If Barca comes back to draw win this game, it will be due to that man, Messi.
@Pico09 two of the goals today were from ter stegen's error, and barca's win last week wasn't convincing either
@KlaasJanHuntelaar Ter Stegen had 1 error only. But he has been Barca's savior in several recent games. I say sometimes players have a bad day. Cilessen clearly is not as good as Ter Stegen. We had no other better choice. I agree that the Rayo's win was clearly not convinced. Barca made the same mistake today (underestimate the opponent, use Roberto instead of Semedo) and, this time, they paid for it.
@Pico09 This is just purely lack of respect and consideration on the opponent. They have no motivation whatsoever to trash avarage teams like they used to. They got away last weekend, lets see how this ends.
Match against İnter took a lot energy. Atalanta-İnter match is a good proof for it.
@Taha25 betis played against milan thursday, they aren't tired.
@JampolPapa Betis played at home. Inter did too but Barca is a stressful team to play against. Betis have been far more motivated though. Almost like Barca thinks they can go easy because Messi is back.
@JampolPapa i did not say that they had not played. it depends on how they played...
I'm having flashbacks of Levante. Time for Val to start Cillessen instead of overrated MATS.
Pique needs to be substituted. İn both goals he was out of position, even not running.
Weird to see Barcelona getting outplayed in the Camp Nou !
@CirdomAkul With Messi no less.
as usual everytime i think barcelona to win easily the opponent outplays them and when i think its going to be difficult they dominate the opponent
@BarcaPlsLetMeDown Betis is playing a lot like Barca and maintaining a surprisingly high possession, Barca players are probably not used to that.
Bocor euy pertahanannya.. Payah Barca
barcelona...sigh
Messi in the squad, i would be surprised to see him play though
@OhItsABelter Messi starts as i have listed below.
@OhItsABelter i stand corrected! He hss been named in the starting 4-3-3 out on the right. Im very excited to see how he plays with malcom in the squad. Predicting a barca win, 3-0
Real Betis is a decent side so... Barca 5-1
Barca 4-0
BARCELONA Ter Stegen , Pique , Rakitic , Sergio , Arthur , Suarez , Messi , Malcom , Lenglet , Alba , Roberto
under 4.5
@romero I'll be shocked if Betis can score even 1 goal. This has Barca 4-0 win written all over it.
@SeuneMilmas thats 3goals for Betis, plz ignore the last comment i made it 5minutes ago
@SeuneMilmas ooh, did u mean 1 goal more than 2, coz i'll be shocked 2.
@SeuneMilmas I'll be shocked the day you get a prediction right.
@SeuneMilmas my dear, I don't give a damn if you get shocked
Barca win and Suarez to score
Messi ll play