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Xavi planning to rotate for Barcelona’s Champions League opener

Barcelona coach Xavi is reportedly planning on making some changes to his starting XI for the team’s next game against Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League.

The Catalans have made an unbeaten start to the season and will be hot favorites to begin the group stages with a win against Czech opposition.

Mundo Deportivo are reporting that Xavi will make at least four changes to this team and will rest Eric Garcia, Gavi, Ousmane Dembele, and Ronald Araujo.

The changes mean that Jules Kounde is likely to revert to his favored center-back role after playing at right-back for the last two games.