Xavi’s students must get at least one point to certify the runner-up goal
In the Colosseum Alfonso Pérez, Barça have the chance to finish once and for all with the goal of second place. The team led by Xavi will face Getafe in the first of the two matches they have in the rest of the League in which it is enough to take a single point. A draw or a win this season would put an end to the Cule’s agony and the start of a hectic summer on the transfer market.
“They need a point to save the category, so it will be a difficult game. We need to have better feelings than against Celta. We still have one point to finish second, but we will go out and win with three points,” he assured. Xavi in the press conference ahead of his team’s game against Getafe, Tarrasa’s coach knows how close he is to goal and does not want any sort of relaxation in a trap game against a rival in need.
To certify second place, Xavi will have to find solutions to the plague of victims that the Catalans have for this day. Ronald Araujo, who already trained normally yesterday, is on a selection list in which Pique, Sergiño Dest, Sergi Roberto, Nico and Pedri will be absent due to injury, while Jordi Alba, Eric Garcia and Frenkie de Jong will be absent due to suspension. With this scenario, Xavi is betting on a squad full of novelties in which Mingueza and Lenglet would start from scratch and where the main unknown is whether the Catalan coach will repeat the draw used in the weekly session with Ferran Torres , Aubameyang, Memphis and Dembele whether he will give Riqui Puig the chance in midfield alongside Busquets and Gavi.
It will not be an easy game for Barcelona. The rival the Catalans face is a team that will risk its life in the two days remaining and have it in its power not to get into trouble. Quique Sánchez Flores’ men are on their own, they need a point to save the category and they will come out with a knife between their teeth not to travel to Martínez Valero on the last day with the possibility of relegation. For this, the azulones can count on all their footballers, with the exception of the sanctioned Stefan Mitrovic, the injured Jaime Mata and Erick Cabaco, who have split for disciplinary reasons.
Source: La Verdad
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