La Liga is Back With Neymar's Barça

A good weekend is ahead of us in the Spanish La Liga, where FC Barcelona will be the first one of a three game marathon for today in the US starting at 7am Pacific time. The current leader will visit Granada with the well known absence of Leo Messi and goalkeeper Víctor Valdés, it should be interesting to see how Gerardo 'Tata' Martino places Neymar and Alexis Sánchez on Messi's behalf.

With the great season Alexis and Neymar are playing now, Martino will have a great dilemma on who will take care of the offensive game of Barça. It's clear now that Barça's game is more direct than when 'Tito' Vilanova or Pep Guardiola used to train the team on previous seasons. Plus Barcelona is now three points ahead of Atlético Madrid and six point above Real Madrid, they will need all their fire power to keep the distance and stay at the top of the table.

Atlético will play against Getafe at Vicente Calderón Stadium and Real Madrid will visit the Mediterranio Stadium to play against Almeria, the two top Madrid teams seem to have an easy game for them so Barça need to win no matter what. Barcelona will start the game against Granada with the following formation: Pinto, Montoya, Piqué, Bartra, Adriano, Busquets, Cesc, Iniesta, Pedro, Neymar and Alexis.

They will have another difficult day on the goal because of Victor Valdés injury, but on the attack 'Tata' Martino will trust on Neymar and Alexis Sánchez to give the team the goals they need with Messi's absence. It will be a passionate day for la Liga come back after the last Qualification round to the World Cup where all the 32 National Teams are finally ready for Brazil 2014.