The Barça denies to give up in the fight by the doublet League-Cup

The Catalan group denies to throw by embroiders it the championship suspender belt of the First Division of Spain, afterwards of the backstitch that has showed in the last dates, added to the potholes that has had the leader of the competition, the Athletic Madrid. Which has offered in a frantic closing, where also the Real Madrid, from the third position, has real options to revalidate the title achieved the past edition.

The good moment of the comandados from the bench by the Dutch technician Ronald Koeman, has arrived in a moment crucial of the present season, taking into account that further of the early elimination in Champions, in the eighth of final to hands of the PSG, the ones of City Condal are still in the dispute by the two national trophies.

In the present Glass of Rey, ensured his pass to the final against the Athletic Club of Bilbao the next 17 April. And regarding LaLiga Santander, after a start titubeante and with a lot of doubts, happened the equator of the competition, have gone finding little by little with his best football. By such reason, foresees an end in where until three teams contest elbow to elbow one of the most argued seasons of the local championship Spanish in the last years.

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At present, between the first three places of the competition only there is a margin of 8 points of distance. The Athletic obtained a valuable triumph in the day that had slope, defeating by an adjusted 2-1 to the Athletic Club in Wanda Metropolitan, with which takes him out a brecha of 6 points to the Barcelona, that threatens it from the second place.

Contested 26 days, the panorama avizora of this way, closed and with parity of here to the end. Situation that to starts of year seemed to be totally atypical and without any foundation, since the ones of the 'Cholo' Simeone lucían solid and without lacks until this moment, however, in the last two months the results of the picture 'colchonero' have been a coin to the air, losing points with rivals in the accessible paper, and yielding terrain in what it seemed to be a league more than sentenced, where even already predicted that they would finish heaving the championship with several dates of antelación.

But for luck of the Catalan picture, the 'rojiblancos' have showed a decline that added to his good walk allows to tighten the distance between leader and sublíder, that to the day of today has to the ones of Lionel Messi and company to a party for giving hunting to the capitalinos, when they still are missing 9 duels to arrive to the 38 corresponding dates for the end of the competition.

The disparity of results of the Athletic in the last weeks allows dimensionar the recent problems that faces the Madrilenian institution, and that has made possible that LaLiga avive when once initiated the second half gave the impression to be all cleared.

The Barcelona looks for the national doublet

For the picture 'blaugrana', when remaining out of the Glass of Europe all his attention centres in the competition liguera, waiting only of the final copera. Further of the complicated that has been all the season for the team, achieve the 'doublet' Spanish, League and Glass, would mean to save a season that from the start did not await with a lot of enthusiasm from the surroundings 'culé'.

Likewise, the needs of a team like the Barcelona force it to struggle to the end by both titles for maquillar the failure of the Champions League, remaining outside apresuradamente in eighth by first time from the edition of the 2007. Like this, the obligation bases mainly in not repeating the invalid past course, where the combined 5 winning times of UCL, sacked the same without any title in his list of winners from the 2008.

The Barça does not win the league from the edition 2018/19, whereas the glass does not obtain it from the 2017/18, where also remained with the tournament of league, meaning that his last national doublet. Of the same way, at present the domestic competition liguera keeps on being the most important of the two in career.

The table of LaLiga Santander leaves of the following way: the Athletic of Madrid is leading with 66 points, been still in the second place by the Barcelona with 65. The Real Madrid closes the podium with 63 units, whereas the Seville, a bit more move# away is fourth with 58.