AFTER THE LOOSE DEBUT AGAINST RAYO

An excited Barça looks to Donosti for its first win of 2022-2023

Published:20/08/2022 - 23:28h

Updated:21/08/2022 - 20:50h

FC Barcelona will seek to give its first 'blow' in LaLiga Santander 22-23 this Sunday against Real Sociedad, starting at 10:00 p.m. The Catalans arrive excited in search of three vital points

The FC Barcelona does not want to give two steps in false been still in this start of LaLiga Santander 2022-23. Although the tie in front of the Ray Vallecano in the first day has not lit the alarms, neither there are doubts regarding the team, the Barcelona do not want to link two 'pricks' consecutive in the domestic championship.

The visit to the Real Sociedad, this Sunday to the 22:00 hours, supposes a very big challenge for the Barcelona. The crash in front of the group 'rayista' left feelings found and went a bathroom of reality put, although the expectations were very big, the Barça still needs time to fit all the pieces in the puzzle and achieve his best version that allow him litigate by the titles.

The pressure on the Barça is máximam because the team trained by Imanol Bailiff comes to win in his debut against him Cádiz (0-1) and is and a team that usually puts in aprietos to the culés. It was cual was the case, the intention is to add the first three points of the championship and begin to scalar positions in the table of classification, that will not be simple given the big competition that there is in this season.

The statistics favour enormously to the culés in the previous of the crash, put have not lost in any of his last twelve meetings in front of the Real Sociedad in LaLiga, with ten victories and two ties. Likewise, in the last six visits to San Sebastián, the Barça neither has known the defeat: four triumphs, by the twice that they have remained in tables. This does not want to say, in no case, that was a simple field.

Only it is necessary to remember the last visit, in the past season, when to the Barça cost him horrors carry the victory. In said party, the group directed by Xavi Hernández was of more to less in Anoeta and finished suffering more than the account. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang marked the difference in the electronic to the ten minutes, in a played that Ousmane Dembélé began.

The French attacker, recently renewed until 2024, sent a shot to the second stick and ell refuse hunted it Gavi to put pause and redo the played. It opened to the second stick to Ferran Torres so that it put it to him to the contrary stick to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang that appeared like a bullet to finish of head and put the advantage in the marker for his.

In this opportunity, the Barça arrives in a quite different situation. The team has renewed completely and, for example, the goleador of this night (Aubameyang) is in the ramp of exit of the club, ready to seal his traspaso to Chelsea by the next three seasons. Instead, Xavi will have an attack of luxury conformed, probably, by Lewandowski, Dembélé and Raphinha.

The Polish forward is called to be the big protagonist of the Barça in this season. Although it already annotated against the Cougars in Joan Gamper, Lewandowski will look for to première like goleador official of the picture culé. It knows that the challenge is capital and that, for example, will be very complicated to beat to a Remiro that is one of the big 'walls' of LaLiga Spanish.

The Barça, conditioned

The Barcelona arrive to San Sebastián with a very sensitive drop: the one of Sergio Busquets, the one who was expelled in the crash against the Ray Vallecano after seeing two yellow cardboards. Xavi Hernández considers him an indisputable player, but has two options to replace him: Miralem Pjanic and Frenkie of Jong, although the egarense already has left clear that sees more to the Dutch like an interior and no like a pivote.

In the Barça assume the crash like a key party. The trainer of Terrassa already aimed that it will not be simple, given the big quality of the group trained by Imanol Bailiff: "Have a lot of talent and quality up, his goalkeeper has good game of feet. It is a hard rival, and are three vital points for us", said in room of press in the previous of the party.