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Published:5/01/2014 - 02:13h

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After the victory of the Athletic in Málaga, the Barcelona needs to win this Sunday to the Elche (16:00 h, GolT/C L) to continue leading the classification. The team of Tata Martino faces the first party of 2014 with the novelties of Valdés, Xavi and Neymar

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Today they go back. The leaders of the League, the players of the FC Barcelona, restart the competition against the Elche in an appointment that will serve to open the second stretch of the season, the one who corresponds to the year 2014. The football goes back with a smile for the culés, that see like the team recovers to Víctor Valdés (six weeks of drop), Xavi (absent in Getafe) and Neymar Jr (sanctioned) for the first appointment of the new year in the Camp Nou.

Of this way, the infirmary empty and Martino only has to regret the absences of Messi, Alves, Two Saints, Afellay and Cuenca and the one of the sanctioned Sergio Busquets, that will reappear for the party of Glass against the Getafe (Wednesday 8, 22 hours) or in Vicente Calderón (Saturday 11, 20 hours). And it is that to the FC Barcelona expects him a calendar of traca in a January in which they will begin to decide things so much in the League as in the Glass.

The first is to know if the FC Barcelona, leader during the last 55 days of League, will be able to follow expanding this record a week more. The victory of the Athletic of Madrid in Málaga (0-1) forces to the Barcelona group to tumbar to the Elche in the Camp Nou. If it does it, it will travel to territory colchonero with the 'goal-average' in favour.

By part visitor, the technical Fran Escribá has quoted to a total of 19 players. It goes back to the list the leading Manu of the Moral, lesionado during the two last months, whereas they are not the sanctioned Damián and Chorus neither his goalkeeper title, Manu Herrera, absent by an injury in the nose. It will be a special duel for some of the players of the Elche, like Botía or Lombán, with a past in Can Barça.

The Elche returns to the Camp Nou, 24 years afterwards

This Sunday the Elche will go back to play in the Camp Nou. The ilicitanos have returned to the maximum category of the Spanish football 24 years after his descent in 1989. It is the twentieth season of the Elche in First Division, a course in which the FC Barcelona, in party of the second turn, will go back to play in the Martínez Valero.

In all his history in the maximum category, Barça and Elche have seen the faces until in 38 occasions, with a very positive balance for the Barcelona group: 19 victories, 11 ties and 8 defeats. The last defeat against the Elche produced in the season 1974/75, when the team culé fell by 1-0 like visitor. These precedents are even more favourable to the Barça if they take into account only the commitments played in Barcelona. In this case, the balance is of 12 Barcelona victories and seven ties. The last duel with the culés like venues took place on 12 February 1989, in a party resolved by Bakero and Love (2-0).

Technical index card of the party: FC Barcelona vs Elche Cf. Smart

of summoned of the FC Barcelona (confirmed): Valdés, Paint, Montoya, Hammered, Fàbregas, Puyol, Xavi, Pedro, Iniesta, Alexis, Neymar, Mascherano, Bartra, Alex Song, Jordi Alba, Tello, Adriano and Sergi Roberto; Descartados: Dani Alves and Cuenca; Sanctioned: Busquets; Lesionados: Messi, Oier, Two Saints and Afellay.

List of summoned of the Elche (confirmed): Toño, Marc Martínez; Botía, Lombán, Pelegrín, Sapunaru, Albacar and Schism; Rivera, Rubén Pérez, Mantecón, Fidel, Carles Gil, Carlos Sánchez, Aarón, Javi Márquez; Manu Of the Moral, Boakye and Cristian Herrera.

Stadium: Camp Nou (99.354 viewers)
Competition: League BBVA 2013-2014 - Day 18
Schedule and television: 16:00 hours, Channel Ties and Goal Television
Referee: Fernández Borbalán (Andalusian School). The Barça has won the seven parties that Fernández Borbalán has directed them in the Camp Nou. The Elche with this has not won still when adding a tie and a defeat.

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