It is time to recover. After a week marked by defeats against Betis, in the League, and against Bayern, in the Champions League, the Barça faces a new challenge in domestic competition. The azulgranas visit Pamplona (4.15pm) in a game that should serve to regain confidence after a week in which they have chained the first defeat of the Xavi era and the elimination of the Champions League.
Xavi’s men will seek victory in the seventeenth day of the League against a Osasuna they have only won one home game this season. But El Sadar is always a complicated scenario for the Catalans. Barça have only won 15 games of the 39 they have played as a visitor against the rojillos.
The rival
Trainer: Jagoba Arrasate. The Biscayan coach faces his fourth season at the helm of the Navarrese team, with which he achieved promotion to the First Division in his first campaign, 2018/2019. The former coach of Real Sociedad and Numancia has a balance of two victories, one draw and three defeats against the Blaugrana.
Goal scorer: Roberto torres, Kike Garcia, Chimy Avila Y David garcia. All four players are tied at the top of the team’s top scorers ranking with a total of two goals each.
Classification: Those from Pamplona are tenth in the standings and accumulate a balance of five victories, six draws and five defeats in the 16 games played so far.
Xavi: “You have to regain feelings and you have to win”
The Catalan coach does not lower the demand after the last two bad results. “You have to work hard, you have to regain feelings and you have to win. This is about winning. We must start winning tomorrow, it is a final and we cannot lose any more points, “says Xavi, who despite the situation is optimistic:” there is no other choice but to compete, there is a lot left. We are not at the best moment in the club’s history, this is evidence, but we must have joy, encourage ourselves and recover so that the results arrive. There is no other choice but to work hard ”.
The Egarense sends a positive message to a staff where he considers that “there is a level to do more things, but you also have to believe it and this is my job. We are encouraging them to do things, to dare, to be brave ”.
The convocation
The Blaugrana coach, Xavi Hernández, has decided to call up the following players for the match at El Sadar: Ter Stegen, Dest, Piqué, R. Araujo, Sergio, Riqui Puig, O. Dembélé, Demir, Neto, Coutinho, Lenglet, L. De Jong, F. De Jong, O. Mingueza, Umtiti, Eric, Iñaki Peña, Nico , Jutglà, Gavi, Balde and Ez Abde.
Ansu Fati, Braithwaite, Pedri, Kun Agüero, S. Roberto, Jordi Alba and Memphis are out due to injury.
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