After two weeks of foreign duty, Barcelona will play again tomorrow night at the Olympic Montjuic Stadium against Las Palmas.

Barcelona won both of their most recent games against this team in exciting and somewhat controversial ways. Ilkay Gundogan scored a penalty in the 93rd minute to give Barcelona a 1-2 win.

But before this game, Barcelona and Las Palmas are in very different moods.

Garcia Pimienta’s team is having the worst season since he was boss of Barcelona. It’s been five games since they won one, and it’s been eight games since they won one.

The Catalans, on the other hand, are playing much better than they were before. They haven’t lost in ten games, including a 3-1 win over Napoli in the Champions League and a 0-3 win away from home against Atletico Madrid.

People expect Barcelona to play well in this game, but they will also be thinking about their Champions League game against PSG in three days. With that in mind, BU pokes fun at how Xavi should set up his team to play Las Palmas.

Defense: Araujo out, Inigo in

Ronald Araujo was called up by Uruguay to play for their country, but Marcelo Bielsa sent him home after the first game to get behind Barcelona. It was said that the player wasn’t hurt.

On the other hand, he hasn’t trained with the team yet, so he might be rested fully to be ready for the PSG game.

Because of this, we think Inigo Martinez should start in central defense with Pau Cubarsi, who also didn’t play a lot for Spain.

A few weeks ago, they started and kept a clean sheet against Mallorca. They seemed to get along surprisingly well.

Joao Cancelo didn’t play at all against Atletico Madrid, and he only played for 88 minutes during the international break. He should almost certainly start at left back, while Jules Kounde is likely to get the nod on the right.

Besides them, Marc-Andre ter Stegen will start in goal again, and he will try to keep his fifth straight La Liga clean sheet.

Roberto stays in the middle of the field.

Before the game against Atletico, Andreas Christensen hurt his Achilles, so he had to stay in Barcelona during the break. Along with Araujo, the Dane is expected to miss the Las Palmas match.

Since Frenkie de Jong, Pedri, and Gavi are all hurt, Xavi probably won’t change anything in the middle of the field for this game.

Ilkay Gundogan will be on the team list first, even though he needs a break before the big UCL game. Along with Sergi Roberto, who had a great game against Atleti, he will start in the double center.

Fermin Lopez should finish off the trio, which is fair since he has scored two goals in his last two games for Barcelona.

Attack: Lewandowski took a break

Reports say that Robert Lewandowski came back from the international break pretty “tired,” which makes sense since he played 210 minutes for Poland.

Before the game against PSG, he will be rested, protected, and iced. Vitor Roque, who cost €40 million, will play the number 9 spot. The Brazilian has only started one league game so far, but he played well in appearances against Mallorca and Atletico.

Ferran Torres should be fit and ready to play in this game, but it’s not likely that he started right away after being out for two months.

Instead, Joao Felix should stay where he is as the left side and Raphinha should start on the right.

In the running, Lamine Yamal, but Xavi should keep him in a bubble wrap for another week since he has only played 120 minutes in the last week. That way, he can be fully fit for Paris.

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The most important thing from this game should be to keep some of the key people safe. So, we think that Xavi will eventually call on Oriol Romeu to replace Gundogan. At the same time, Hector Fort could switch with Jules Kounde.

If Barcelona can end the game quickly enough, Marc Casado might also get to play again off the bench.

With Ferran Torres having just come back from an injury, Xavi could choose to start him and give him game time to get back to match shape.

It’s not a good idea to depend on Lewandowski, but Marc Guiu and Lamine Yamal could be brought on in the second half to help, especially if the game is still close.