Xavi’s team, without Lewandowski, will face Getafe with the aim of continuing the state of euphoria since the Super Cup title.
Continue with the winning inertia. That is the goal Barcelona will have this Sunday as they jump to Camp Nou. Xavi’s team will face Getafe in a match that could serve to reinforce the good feeling they had at the start of the year and also put pressure on a Real Madrid team that will face Athletic in San Mamés immediately afterwards. The culés will have to make do with a plague of absences in attack, including Lewandowski, who was still suspended after his exclusion against Osasuna last year, but the encouragement to present the Spanish Super Cup to his fans.
“Getafe is a team that works well on the defensive line, which usually consists of five. It is a difficult team, which will work in the low and middle blocks, so it can suffocate. We hope to get the three points, which are very important Xavi assured at the press conference prior to his team’s match against Getafe. The Tarrasa coach knows how important it is to continue the good dynamics of the past games and take three points that can serve to close a gap in the standings.
Another triumph would also mean the end of fifteen match days for the culés after taking three main points against Atlético at the Metropolitan, winning the Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid and passing the Copa del Rey stage against Ceuta, this all far from a Camp Nou that hopes that this is now the final start for the new project. With this intent, the stands are packed for a match that could add a dose of extra pressure to a faltering Real Madrid, and which shortly afterwards sees a visit to one of the most complicated stadiums in the category, La Catedral.
To take the three points, Xavi will have to overcome the plague of absences that plagues the attacking front. The aforementioned Lewandowski and Ferran Torres will not be there, both sanctioned, and Memphis Depay will also not be there after signing with Atlétkico. All these casualties will produce an eleven in which Ansu Fati could act as a false nine and in which Xavi could repeat the formula with four players in midfield to eliminate Busquets, Pedri, Gavi and De Jong, all substitutes in the cup, and bet on Dembélé at the expense of Raphinha, who would expect minutes in the second half.
Opposite is a rival who does not arrive well at the appointment, but who travels to Barcelona with the aim of giving a coup de effect in an irregular season. Quique Sánchez Flores’ men are coming off two successive defeats to Sevilla and Espanyol, they are fifteenth in the standings and need three points to break out of a red zone that is closing in. Winning would relieve a team that has “never reached its prime” and is going through a “complicated” situation in the league, as the Azulón coach acknowledged.
For this, Quique Sánchez Flores will be able to count on all his players except Mauro Arambarri, who is already in the final stages of recovery after an ankle injury that has kept him out since October, and Munir, who is doubtful until the game. last minute for muscle problems. They are the only absentees in a team that could leave the Camp Nou with five players in defence, as they already did against Real Madrid and in which Enes Ünal and Borja Mayoral will be the big threats on the counter-attack.
Source: La Verdad
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