Saturday's tie will provide new boss with first true test and opportunity to make his mark. FMTNews Spain LaLiga Football
MADRID: Barcelona’s new era has started with two wins out of two but Saturday’s trip to Valencia will provide Quique Setien with his first true test and an opportunity to make his mark.
On an artificial pitch and with a weakened team facing inspired, albeit third tier, opposition, Ibiza in the Copa del Rey perhaps always offered little up-side. Yet already Barcelona look like a side committed to change, perhaps because Setien knows no other way or even because the players were craving something different too.
But there could be a danger of too much too soon, not least because it remains to be seen whether this group of players are even suited or capable of playing the football to which Setien is so devoted. They play Napoli away in the Champions League next month before facing Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu on Mar 1.
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