Faced with Villarreal, Quique Setien decided to line up Antoine Griezmann alongside Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi in attack. The Catalan technician had been criticized for bringing in the French international only in the 90th minute during the draw against Atletico Madrid (2-2) on Tuesday.
The FC Barcelona team
Ter Stegen – Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Jordi Alba – Busquets, Vidal, Sergi Roberto – Griezmann, Messi, Suárez
The Villarreal compo
Asenjo – M. Gaspar, Albiol, Pau, Gerard – Cazorla, Iborra, Chukwueze, Alberto, Anguissa – Alcacer
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