The frenetic month of January brought the curtain down on the League duel against Elche, but the calendar gives FC Barcelona no respite. Despite the break in the Champions League thanks to entering the top 8 of the classification, February comes loaded with demanding commitments, with the League entering an increasingly decisive section and with the Copa del Rey reaching its decisive rounds.
The Cup in the final stretch
The month will open with a KO competition and a duel that hides more difficulty than it may seem a priori. Barça will visit Albacete on February 3 at 9:00 p.m. at Carlos Belmonte, in a cheating Copa del Rey match. Despite being a Second Division team, the La Mancha team has already demonstrated its potential by eliminating Real Madrid from the competition, a clear warning for the Blaugranas in a single-match quarter-final tie in which any detail can be decisive.
In the event of qualification, the team led by Hansi Flick would once again focus on the Cup in the middle of February, since the first leg of the semifinals would be played between Tuesday the 10th, Wednesday the 11th or Thursday the 12th, while the second leg would be reserved for the first week of March.
The League, without pause
As for the League, the pace does not slow down either. The first domestic match of the month will be at the Spotify Camp Nou against the Mallorca, February 7 at 4:15 p.m.in a duel that could mark the regularity of the Blaugranas at a key moment in the championship. Later, Barça will visit Montilivi to face the Girona on February 16 at 9:00 p.m.in a match on an atypical day, Monday and just after Carnival.
The calendar will continue on the weekend of February 21 and 22 with the visit of Get up to Spotify Camp Nouwith the schedule still pending confirmation. Furthermore, the month could still include one last League commitment: if the duel against Villarreal in the Barça fiefdom It is held on Saturday, February 28, it would also be part of this intense calendar. If played on a Sunday, the game would already open the month of March. The schedule, in any case, is to be determined.
With the Champions League on pause but with the League and the Cup at key moments, Barça faces a February that is short in the calendar, but long in demand, where each match can be decisive in the season’s objectives.
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