Getafe – FC Barcelona | To win and convince in Getafe

After Real Madrid’s triumph in Cádiz, Barça must win to recover their thirteen-point lead

Xavi’s men are looking to recover sensations after not having scored in the last two games

Against Getafe, Barça will seek to take another step towards a league title that they have been cherishing since they won the derby against Real Madrid on March 19 thanks to a goal by Kessie in injury time.

The distance between the two teams is ten points after the victory achieved by Carlo Ancelotti’s men in Cádiz and the Catalans hope to raise it to thirteen again. There would be only nine days left for the end of the championship and Xavi’s men would have more than enough margin to start calculating in which day they can sing the alirón.

The Catalans need victory to consolidate their comfortable advantage and also to recover the sensations lost in recent games. They did not go beyond a draw on the last day against Girona and were thrashed by Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey at the Spotify Camp Nou in a match that meant the elimination of Xavi’s men. In neither of those two games were the blaugranas able to score a goal, so meeting him again is one of the subjects they must pass at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez. To do this, Lewandowski, who is fighting with Benzema to be the top scorer in the championship, will have to refine his aim and be well supported by his teammates, who have not been well in recent games.

tricky stadium

To try to prevent the Barça triumph, Xavi’s men will face a Getafe that is struggling to avoid going down to the Second Division and that comes to the game after losing in Anoeta against Real Sociedad, but adding only that defeat in the last five league games, results that led him to leave the relegation zone when his coach, Quique Sánchez Flores, was more outside than inside the club.

Getafe has become strong at home in recent games, having won the last three and not losing since January 28, when they were defeated by Betis. A week before, they had lost at the Spotify Camp Nou in a close game that Xavi’s men won by the minimum thanks to a goal from Pedri.

Precisely the canary will be one of the four absences that the Egarense coach will have. Dembélé, Frenkie de Jong and Christensen are the other three. All of them are starting players and the team is missing the imbalance in the last third of the field of some of them. The four could be ready to reappear next weekend against Atlético de Madrid, according to Xavi himself, but they will not be able to help the team in a stadium where the Catalans have suffered on their last visits.

NO GOAL

In fact, they have not been able to score a goal in the last two, reaping a draw and a defeat. They equalized to zero last season, already with Xavi on the bench, in a game in which nothing was at stake, as it belonged to the penultimate day of the league and Real Madrid had already won the championship. A year earlier, with Ronald Koeman as coach, Barça fell by the minimum because of a goal by Jaime Mata. The last Barça victory at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez dates from September 28, 2019, when they won (0-2) with goals from Luis Suárez and Junior Firpo.