Barcelona vs Al Sadd FIFA Club World Cup Semi-Final Preview

Thursday, December 15th, 2011 at 9:59 am , filed under Others by Andrew Jordan

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"Barcelona vs Al Sadd" World’s best soccer club team Barcelona is going to face Al Sadd in the FIFA Club World Cup semi-final game 15th Dec 2011 at International Stadium Yokohama.

Pep Guardiola’s squad is looking for easy win against Qatari side to the finals of FIFA Club World Cup while Al Sadd is entering a full-strength squad. The Qatar club players Kader Keita and Khalfan Al Khalfan are likely to join the team in support of striker Mamadou Niang, who led the team to 2-1 win over Esperance.

It’s another crucial for Barcelona after their 3-1 victory over top class club Real Madrid at the weekend. Pep Guardiola is looking to rotate their starting line-up that played in the Real Madrid game. Javier Mascherano is likely to play in the defence in the place of Carles Puyol. David Villa and Pedro is appears a certainty to come into the attack while Seydou Keita and Thiago are likely to start in midfield. Isaac Cuenca is to come for Lionel Messi.

Barcelona was unbeaten in their last four games and they lost against Getafe with 1-0 on November 26, 2011. Later, they registered big victories over Rayo Vallecano (4-0), Levante UD (5-0), FC BATE Borisov (4-0) and Real Madrid (3-1). Barcelona won the title in 2009 with the 2-1 victory Estudiantes in the final.

Al Sadd qualified for the Club World Cup with the shoot-out victory over Jeonbuk Motors in the 2011 AFC Champions League final in November. It has a record of winning 112 league titles and looking to shock the European champions by defeating in Thursday’s game.

The winner of this game will have match-up with either Santos or Kashiwa Reysol in Yokohama in the final on Sunday.

Possible line-ups:

Barcelona: Valdes, Alves, Mascherano, Pique, Maxwell, Iniesta, Keita, Thiago, Cuenca, Villa, Pedro

Al Sadd: Saqr, Nabeel, Koni, Lee Jung-Soo, Belhadj, Al-Bloushi, Rizik, Alyazidi, Al Khalfan, Niang, Keita

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