The fourth chapter of the season of the classic between the Barcelona and the Real Madrid will be staged this Sunday at the Camp Noua universal duel once again that will expose the possibility of Xavi Hernández’s team to mate their rival in the fight for the title and the option of Carlo Ancelotti’s pupils to save the check in which they find themselves and feed some option .
There are nine points of advantage with whom the Barcelona team faces the duel. A victory would shoot the distance to twelve and a draw would keep it. If the white team repeats the victories of its last two league appearances at the Barça coliseum, it would be six and would house the dream of a comeback.
The Barcelona has consolidated its leadership and its advantage in its effectivenessclinging to the 1-0 between the performance of the defense and the goal Marc André Ter Stegen, before the mistakes made by Real Madrid, who appears at the Camp Nou encouraged by his good game against Liverpool and his qualification for the quarterfinals final of the Champions League.
While Xavi and his men have had ‘free’ all week to be able to prepare the classic, Real Madrid comes with the wear and tear of the continental match to a game in which he could repeat the eleven in view of the good performance he gave against Jurgen Klopp’s block.
Karim Benzemawho retired with pain in the tibia of his right leg in the action of the only goal of the match, ruled out that there will be problems to appear this Sunday and he is again the great offensive hope of Ancelotti’s men together with Vinicius, who will once again meet the Uruguayan Ronald Araújo, who returns to Xavi’s eleven after serving a one-match suspension and who has taken the measure of the Brazilian.
Barcelona, who have won the last two clásicos (the Super Cup final and the Copa del Rey semifinal first leg), know that they have an important cushion but want to finish off their eternal rival and not leave the door of the comeback.
If in the offices the Negreira affair has notably altered the panorama in Barcelona, on the pitch Xavi’s team, which could even recover Pedri González, will try to ratify their unstoppable path to the title and snatch it from Real Madrid.
Four games without winning Athletic also accumulateswhich has also distanced him from Europe, for which he seeks to rediscover victory in the match that opens this Friday the twenty-sixth day against a rival who is risking his life like Valladolid, who will not be able to count on one due to suspension of his references in the midfield, Roque Mesa, nor for the same reason with the Cameroonian Martin Hongla.
The Andalusian duel Almería-Cádiz faces the penultimate and the sixteenth, also with two points of difference between the two. Although the local team has gone two games without winning, it is the fourth best in the competition in its fiefdom, a guarantee for a clash of this importance. The yellow team loses Argentine goalkeeper Jeremías Ledesma, central defender Rafael Giménez ‘Fali’ and Iza Carcelén, and the rojiblanco loses Sergio Akieme due to suspension.
In that dream – without forgetting the dream of salvation – the Ray of Andoni Iraola despite having added only three of the last fifteen points at stake (five games without winning. He will receive the Girona of a legend of the Vallecano club, Míchel Sánchez, still sore from the defeat in extremis this Monday against Atlético de Madrid.
the celtic Carlos Carvalhal has really taken off with two wins and two draws in the last four games, which gives him a five point margin that without being definitive it is important, that he will want to improve before Espanyol, weighed down by their last two defeats. The presence of Iago Aspas and Joselu Mato on each side announces an interesting duel between Spanish scorers.
Atlético de Madrid is going through its best moment of the course. Not only has he consolidated his third place, but he has also gotten closer to Ancelotti’s team. R.e will receive an anguished Valencia at the Cívitas Metropolitano due to its qualifying situation but with its last two victories at Mestalla it has begun to see the light.
However, the valencianistas need to score points to further alleviate the situation in a special clash also for Rubén Barajawho among other teams played for Atlético and whose arrival on the bench has begun to revive a team that was on the canvas, although it does not seem the best place to achieve success: they have not won in the Atlético fief for twelve years.
Real Sociedad, Betis and Villarreal, who They are fighting for fourth place. and for completing the Champions League quota, they focus this weekend with the wear and tear of their European matches in the Europa League (the first two, against Roma and Manchester United) and in the Conference League (the third, against Anderlecht).
Betis of the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, who have drawn their last two gameswill receive the Mallorca of the Mexican Javier Aguirre in a more than interesting clash of styles in which the Balearic team will try to squeeze their tactical order to stop the Verdiblancos.
The Royal Society, which accumulates four games without winning in LaLiga, has a three point advantage over Betis and seven over Villarreal. You will receive with the bAha of Mikel Merino, sanctionedbottom club Elche with the aim of resuming the right course.
Villarreal, who seem to have recovered their pulse, have a difficult exit to El Sadar, although Osasuna has not won in its fort since January 14, which has slowed down his career, despite which he is still relatively close to Quique Setién’s team, which marks the European positions.
Jorge Sampaoli’s Seville He is one of those who has the best situation before the weekend, with two points of margin with respect to his rival, Getafe, who marks the red zone and who returns to protect their hopes at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez, where they have won their last two games. The usual long list of casualties in the Sevilla team will be joined by fatigue from the Europa League match in Istanbul against Fenerbahce, while Getafe loses two central defenders through suspension, the Paraguayan Omar Alderete and the Portuguese Domingos Duarte.
