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A Barça plagued by casualties seeks to start 2022 with victory in Son Moix

Published:1/01/2022 - 19:35h

Updated:4/01/2022 - 22:28h

FC Barcelona starts the year this Sunday in Son Moix. From 9:00 p.m., those led by Xavi will seek the first victory of the year ... If the losses by Covid-19 allow it

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The FC Barcelona wants to begin the year with victories and good feelings. After a 2021 marked by the altibajos, irregularity and a dynamic 'desesperante', the culés will want to give him gone back to the history and say "present" in this second stretch of the season. The first appointment to show a mejoría convincente (at stake and results) will be this Sunday, against the Mallorca, from the 21:00 hours.

The ones of Xavi want to 'confirm' the feelings that left in Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, but in this opportunity are more conditioned that never by the coronavirus. In the previous of the visit to the stadium Are Moix, the Barça has nine drops only by positive by Covid-19, a situation that will affect a lot the plans that have the trainer egarense to configure his alignment.

Likewise, to the drops by Covid, add the players that are in the infirmary and that have not recovered of his respective injuries. In total, the Barça will arrive to Sound Moix with around 17 absences. It will be the moment for the 'malabares' of Xavi in the team. In spite of this situation, worrisome and decisive, the intention of the Barça has to be return to the City Condal with three points importantísimos to put to the fight by the European places.

It is worth it to remember that the Barça finds in the seventh position of LaLiga, with 28 points, to 18 of the busy leadership by the Real Madrid. The Barcelona picture is forced to add the three units, conscious that hours before will contest an Athletic of Madrid-Ray Vallecano (fourth and fifth position) and is the opportunity, more latent that never, of scalar squares in the classification.

The Mallorca will want to serve of 'enemy' of the Barcelona picture and recover the smile after receiving a goleada against the Granada (4-1). Before, they had empatado against the Celtic (0-0) and livestock to the Athletic in Wanda Metropolitan (1-2). It is a team in growth that, although in paper is very inferior to the Barça, will look for to put in -more- problems to the Catalans in the classification.

The estadísitcas for this party smile to the ones of Xavi, put the Majorcans have fallen in his last seven parties against the Barça, five of them without annotating and receiving an average of four goals by meeting. Of the same way, Are Moix is a field that gives him very well to the culés, place have won in eleven of his last twelve visits to the stadium (included the last five). The last defeat produced in May of 2009, by 2-1.

Everything is in favour of the Barça to struggle by the three points -in spite of the low-. The culés will have to 'litigate' achieve same to win the big problem of the team: the fault of goal. And it is that the season 2021-22 is being the first course in which the picture culé marks fewer goals (29 in total) that those that indicate his 'expected goals' (33xG, with an amazing difference of -4) from the 2010-2011.

Like this it will arrive the Barça to Sound Moix

The FC Barcelona will have the drops of Dani Alves, Clément Lenglet, Jordi Alba, Alejandro Balde, Ousmane Dembélé, Gavi, Sergiño Dest, Philippe Coutinho and Ez Abde, positive by Covid, but also are the drops of Sergi Roberto, Braithwaite, Pedri, Ansu and Memphis Depay, by injury. Xavi will not explain, neither, with Sergio Busquets, the one who saw his fifth yellow of the season against the Seville and is sanctioned.

On the other hand, Yusuf Demir will not be available because, as it informs 'SPORT', has permission of the club to negotiate his future with another team. It will not play more with the Barça because the culés deny to exert his option of purchase of 10 million euros. Finally, it is the case of Ferran Torres, the one who has not been inscribed in the team (will be able to do from 3 January) and, besides, is lesionado.

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