The day, however, will open health y Valenciawho will put their respective good streaks of play to the test this Friday at El Sadar, in search of a victory that will bring them even closer to the top of the table, in which the rojillos are seventh with 13 points, 3 behind the group “ché” that occupies the ninth position next to Rayo.
Gattuso will only have the doubt of Samu Castillejo, who suffers from physical discomfort, and with the absence of Marcos André, who was sent off against Espanyol; Identical situation to that of David García by Osasuna, who will serve a sanction for the direct red received against Madrid in the tie achieved in Chamartín.
The Almeria will try to regain victory after losing four consecutive days to get out of relegation, although they will not have a simple rival in the Vallecano Rayto which a victory would serve to maintain a week more European aspirations.
For his part, the Atlético will have the opportunity to get rid of the bad taste in his mouth in front of his fans after the unappealable mattress defeat against Bruges (2-0) last Tuesday in the Champions League, and to add 3 gold points to try to get closer to the leaders before the “classic” to rejoin the fight for the title.
Opposite will be Girona, which has just lived through a crazy game in Montilivi that ended with a local defeat by 3 to 5 against Real Sociedad and has not won for two days, so it will seek to surprise despite the casualties and complicate even more so the situation of those from “Cholo”, who will not be able to count on Marcos Llorente, Reguilón or Felipe.
The Sevillawhich has only won one game this season, which ended up leading last Wednesday, after the lofty 1-4 defeat against Borussia Dortmund at the Sánchez Pizjuán in the Champions League, to the dismissal of its coach, Julen Lopetegui.
With the Argentine Jorge Sampaoli on the bench, he will have to receive at home the Athletic Club by Ernesto Valverde, who is third, three points behind Madrid and Barça, and arrives at the event in Seville thanks to the spectacular form of the Williams brothers, but without Vivian or Berchice, injured.
The Real Madridwho lost the sole leadership of the championship precisely in his fiefdom last day with a tie at 1 against Osasuna, will have to quickly forget this first slip of the season to try to overcome on Saturday at the Alfonso Pérez Coliseum a Getafeirregular in this league start, which will try to leave behind the bad taste in the mouth of its defeat last day, precisely at home against Valladolid (2-3).
Carlo Ancelotti’s men arrive at the meeting after beating Shakhtar (2-1) in the Champions League, but still with the significant loss of their starting goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, and with the pressing need to start keeping their goal to zero, something that they have not achieved so far this year, while the azulones will face the duel in Madrid with the sure casualties of Portu and Maksimovic, waiting to know the evolution of Arambarri and Seoane. In addition, it will be the first time that Borja Mayoral faces his training club without officially belonging to the merengue discipline or playing on loan for another club.
On Sunday, the Betis will visit the José Zorrilla after the defeat against Celta and without Luiz Felipe, suspended, and will try to put pressure on the League with a victory that would place Pellegrini’s men with 18 points, one off the lead at the expense of the Barça and Madrid matches .
However, the Valladolid He arrives reinforced after the victory in Getafe (2-3) and will make his stadium a fort to keep as many points as possible that will keep him away from the dangerous positions in the classification.
The Cadiz–Espanyol will complete the soccer menu on Sunday, in a match that promises equality given the dire situation of both teams in the qualifying table, where barely a point separates them, with the local team also in relegation places.
Completing the list of candidates for privileged positions, Villarreal y Real society They will meet in a high-flying duel in which both teams have a lot to lose, since a defeat would take them away from their common goal, although it would be especially painful for the “yellow submarine”, which has gone three days without knowing victory and still cannot play at home at La Cerámica due to construction work at the stadium. Gerard Moreno, Trigueros and Foyth are also out due to injury.
In the “txuri urdin” box, Imanol will have the main handicap of visiting Sheriff Tiraspol in the Europa League on Thursday, so he will have just two days to prepare for the match, in which he will also be able to find out if he finally has Ali- Cho, Gorosabel, Le Normand and Zubimendi.
The Barcelona, instead, he will act as host on Sunday at the Camp Nou to receive the Celtaa team that has taken the measure of the Blaugrana team in recent seasons, which in fact took the victory of Can Barça two campaigns ago, and whose main threat is Iago Aspas who has 10 goals in his particular account against the culés
The group led by Xavi Hernández also arrives at the match with several important casualties such as those of Araújo, Koundé, Christensen, Bellerín, De Jong, Kessié or Depay, and after losing in Milan against Inter (1-0) in the Champions League, while “Chacho” Coudet will be able to count on his entire squad to prolong the good feeling of his victory against Betis (1-0) the previous weekend.
The day will end on Monday with the elche–Mallorcaa vital duel for the people of Elche, who are bottom players and still do not know victory in the 2022-2023 League.
