Win, lose, or draw.

I’m excited for the game today. You should be too.

Kick off is at 4pm EST, 6am in Tokyo, 11pm in Beirut, 3pm in Tegucigalpa, and midnight in Minsk HLEB CITY. Liveblog starts whenever I feel like it. (Probably half an hour before)

FCB Lineup: Valdés, Alves, Puyol, Mascherano, Adriano; Fàbregas, Dos Santos, Thiago; Messi, Cuenca Tello

Bench: Pinto, Xavi, Alexis, Pique, Busi, Abidal, Sergi Roberto

Our prize for beating Madrid in the Copa is a semifinal against Valencia with an injury depleted squad.

Starting XI: Pinto, Alves, Pique, Puyol, Abidal, Busquets, Mascherano, Thiago, Fabregas, Cuenca, Messi, Sanchez

Bench: Valdes, Adriano, Alves, Busquets, Dos Santos, Xavi, Sergi, Tello

Liveblog starts a couple minutes before the 3:00 PM EST kickoff.

Well. It seems we haven’t got any forwards left with Pedro picking up a small injury, forcing Alexis to travel and possibly play with painkillers.

At first glance, this is terribly unfortunate. And annoying. And thought provoking. But mostly why is this happening I hate hamstring injuries screw it all to Madrid and back arghhhhhh!!!112!1!

But then you stop and realize the truth behind the madness. That we actually have 32 first team players when you really think about it.

Xavi is worth 12 players*, Abidal is 7 players, Busi is roughly worth 3[10^2974*(x-3 + 71)] + 2 – YAYA + y players, and Puyol is worth PUYI players. Messi is worth ∞ players.

*Where 0.12452 player is equal to approximately 3 million Pepe-s.

So have no fear, our lineup of heroes are here. The only kryptonite is yellow cards, as if Busi and Messi pick up one [both on 4] they’ll be suspended for the next match (vs. Real Sociedad)

FCB lineup: Valdes Alves Puyol Pique Abidal; Xavi Busquets Mascherano: Cesc Messi Adriano

Bench: Pinto, Thiago, Alexis, dos Santos, Roberto, Tello, Cuenca.

Welcome to Celebrity Deathmatch… LET’S GET IT ON!

Starting XI: Pinto, Alves, Pique, Puyol, Abidal, Xavi, Busquets, Iniesta, Messi, Cesc, Sanchez

Bench: Valdes, Adriano, Mascherano, Dos Santos, Thiago, Pedro, Cuenca

Bad Guys: Casillas, Arbeloa, Pepe, Ramos, Coentrao, Alonso, Lass, Ozil, Kaka, Ronaldo, Higuain

Boarding begins 15 minutes before the scheduled 4:00 PM EST takeoff time. Don’t be late.

Getting right to it:

Barca lineup: Valdes; Alves, Pique, Masche, Abidal; Busi, Iniesta, Thiago; Adriano, Messi and Alexis

Bench: Pinto, Puyol, Jona, Xavi, Cesc, Cuenca, Pedro. In the stands: Sergi Roberto.

Words can’t describe the anticipation.

Starting XI: Pinto Alves Pique Puyol Abidal Xavi Busquets Iniesta Fabregas Messi Sanchez

Bench: Valdes, Mascherano, Adriano, Dos Santos, Thiago, Sergi, Cuenca

Storm Trooper XI: Casillas, Altintop, Ramos, Carvalho, Marcelo, Coentrao, Pepe, Alonso, Diarra, Ozil, Callejon, Higuain, Ronaldo, Benzema

Boarding begins 15 minutes before the 4:00 PM EST flight. Don’t be late.