Barcelona: 5 tough matches for Ernesto Valverde to end 2019

Hosting Mallorca

Barcelona’s next La Liga fixture will be against newcomers Mallorca, a team who hasn’t visited Camp Nou since the 2012-13 season. Mallorca when they last visited Camp Nou, they lost to an embarrassing 5-0 margin. A few players remain from Barcelona that were in that squad like Messi, Pique, Alba, and Sergio Busquets.

Barcelona must take advantage of this home game to maintain themselves as leaders of La Liga; I predict a comfortable win by the Blaugranas. In this game, we should see a few rotations for the squad to rest up some of the players, but knowing Ernesto Valverde, that will probably more than likely not to occur.

This can be a perfect opportunity to rest up some players before they go out to Milano and face Inter Milan, Although whoever Valverde ends up putting in the starting eleven, they must be able to get the job done against a team who’s lately been playing badly as they have three loses in their past five games for La Liga.

By the time they face Mallorca at Camp Nou, they will already know the result from the Madrid-Espanyol game. Regardless of the outcome from their foes, they must finish the game with the three points in the bag to increase the lead from Los Blancos.