Barça needs this Sunday to recover the good feelings at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez after the goalless draw against Girona and the cup disaster against Real Madrid. The team led by Xavi faces Getafe with their minds set on continuing to open up the standings and seal a League title as soon as possible that is practically sentenced, but that is simmering. He will have to do it without the injured Pedri, Dembélé Frenkie de Jong and Christensen, but with Raphinha and Lewandowski, already fully recovered, to tackle the problems that the Catalans are having with the goal.
«It will be one more test against a difficult opponent. The category is at stake and, therefore, it is difficult. We are very excited to win this League and we are in a privileged situation with an important advantage, but we want to maintain it. We still have to win many games », assured Xavi in the preview of his team’s match against the rival azulón. The Tarrasa coach does not trust Getafe and warns that there will not be much news because “it is not a time to test.”
The culés come to this game with certain doubts. Despite the distance of 13 points prior to the start of the day, Xavi’s men have shown signs of exhaustion in the games against Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey and against Girona in the League. In those two games, which ended without scoring a goal, they have shown a lack of ideas in attack and a blackout in front of goal in which Lewandowski has been the great signal. The Pole, who has recognized during the week that he is not going through his best moment, arrives at the Coliseum with the obligation to pull the car and show that he can be that decisive player in this final stretch that he was at the beginning of the course.
The ex of the Bayern will have to do it once again without three of his main partners in the front of attack. Xavi will not be able to count on Pedri, Ousmane Dembélé and Frenkie de Jong against Getafe due to injury, and he will not be able to count on Andreas Christensen either. All of them continue in the dry dock for another week and will condition an eleven that has become a real puzzle for Xavi.
The Tarrasa coach could return to 4-4-2 to accommodate Kessié in the midfield with Busquets, Sergi Roberto and Gavi to have a better balance and leave Lewandowski and Raphinha at the spearhead, the two players with the most goals in the template at this time.
a rival in need
Opposite will be a team that continues to flirt with the relegation places and that will play a final, although they will all be until the end of the season. Getafe has been an irregular team throughout the entire League and it is being so in the last days of many doubts. Quique Sánchez Flores’ men are on the Everest of their calendar, as they come from drawing at San Mamés and losing 2-0 at the Reale Arena in a game in which they did not have many options. They return to the Coliseum with the aim of gaining morale against the leader ahead of a stage in which direct rivals such as Mallorca, Almería, Espanyol, Elche or Valladolid await them.
To achieve the machada of knocking down the leader, Quique Sánchez Flores will not be able to count on Mauro Arambarri and Jaime Mata due to injury, but he will be able to count on the rest of the artillery that Getafe has in attack. The azulones could form with a 4-4-2 in which the duo formed by Unal and Mayoral will be the great concern for the culés.
Probable lineups:
Getafe: Soria, Damián, Djené, Duarte, Alderete, Maksimovic, Milla, Munir, Portu, Enes Unal and Mayoral.
Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Kound, Araujo, Marcos Alonso, Balde, Busquets, Kessie, Sergi Roberto, Gavi, Raphinha and Lewandowski.
Referee: Juan Luis Pulido Santana (Canary Islands Committee).
Time: 4:15 pm. Coliseum Alfonso Perez.
TV: Dazn.
2023-04-15 22:14:15
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