Xavi's Barça, on a roll: Four wins in a row and eight games without losing

The FC Barcelona of Xavi Hernández goes to cruising speed. The 'effect' of the trainer egarense has taken time in being palplable and translate in the results, but seems to have arrived to remain . The Barcelona group is in series and has recovered the irregularity, something that did not have from the past year, but remains a lot of way for visiting. The good news is that the Barça has reencontrado with his best version... And it can litigate by much more.

The Barcelona won this Sunday to the Elche with an adjusted traced back by 1-2, in a party in which almost they crash in front of the 'fortín' ilicitano, but Memphis Depay finished resolving for his from the point penalti. With the 'round' to the Martínez Valero, the Barcelona added his fourth consecutive victory in all the competitions and three been still in the championship suspender belt.

Valencia (1-4), Napoli (2-4), Athletic of Bilbao (4-0) and Elche (1-2) have been the victims of the positive series of the Barça. The results begin to be to 'favour' of the culés, accompanying the big feelings that has left the team in this last stretch of the season. The Barcelona have 'changed' of image and has noticed how presionan further up, recover fast and dump at all times to the attack.

This good series has served so that the Catalans have escalado to the third position of LaLiga, after surpassing to the Real Betis. The Barcelona adds 48 units with 26 parties contested, one less than the rest of his nearer competitors. The same, against the Ray Vallecano, will be contested on 24 April and will be key to reduce distances with the second square, occupied by the Seville, with which there are seven points of difference.

In the Europe League, on the other hand, the Barça has reached the eighth of final after crushing to the Naples. Although the party of gone, in the Camp Nou, did not achieve more than a tie by 1-1 (although they deserved more), in the turn left a recital to concretise the classification in the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. They imposed with a solid 2-4 to confront to the Galatasaray in the following round, this Thursday to the 21:00 hours in the feudo Barcelona.

The Barça great 8 parties without losing

It is necessary to trace back until 20 January of this year to find the last defeat of the Barcelona in all the competitions. The ones of Xavi fell by 3-2 in front of the Athletic of Bilbao in the eighth of final of the Glass of Rey and eight days before also lost, in front of the Real Madrid, in the semifinals of the Supercopa of Spain (2-3). Since, they have linked eight parties without losing.

In this period, the culés have achieved six victories (Alavés, Athletic of Madrid, Valencia, Naples, Athletic and Elche) and two ties (Espanyol and Naples). In four of these parties, the Barça annotated four goals and, in total, has marked 22 targets, a figure that seems unreal after seeing all what cost him to the picture culé recover his smell golador. They have fit, on the other hand, nine goals.