BARÇA, UNBEATEN AT HOME
Barça want to continue their impressive run against Atlético at home
Atlético de Madrid will visit the Spotify Camp Nou this Sunday. It is a stadium that does not bring back good memories for the 'mattress' team, since there have been more negative than favorable results in the last two decades
The FC Barcelona takes action this Sunday in LaLiga in research to recover the good feelings and go back to the senda of the victory. Abril is being a quite complicated month for the ones of Xavi Hernández because, in addition to remaining out of the Glass of Rey, have reduced the favourable advantage in the classification with the Real Madrid. In spite of this, seems impossible that can lose the domestic title.
However, for this have to impose this Sunday in front of an Athletic of Madrid that, in the last weeks, has resulted to be a very regular team and achieved to reduce to two his distance with the Real Madrid, in the second position. The ones of the 'Cholo' Simeone are signing an end of season very positive that has served them to recover the good feelings after remaining deleted of the Champions League and Glass of the King very soon.
The point that has in favour the Barça
Both teams arrive to the party in positions very different. The Barça great two ties been still in LaLiga, against Getafe and Girona, whereas the Athletic great six consecutive victories in LaLiga. Since empataron in the derbi in Santiago Bernabéu (1-1), have won it everything. Therefore, they will want to follow his series in front of a Barcelona picture that does not cross his best moment. In spite of this, have the history against and could finish happening them bill.
And it is that the Athletic of Madrid does not win in the Spoitify Camp Nou from 17 years ago. It was on 5 February 2006, when the Madrilenian occupied the eleventh position of the table and gave the surprise in front of the group trained, in that then, by Frank Rijkaard. The Barça was leader and had the absence of the sanctioned Ronaldinho or the lesionado Samuel Eto'or. Fernando Torres was the attendant to open the marker and Maxi Rodríguez put the 2-0 after the rest, although Larsson recortó distances. Finally, Torres went back to appear to sink to the culés with the 1-3 definite.
The registers of the Barça-Athletic since
The history has smiled him in the majority of opportunities in these last years, although in the most recent seasons has reduced the distance 'abysmal' that existed between the two teams. From February of 2005, have played 22 parties between the FC Barcelona and Athletic of Madrid in the Spotify Camp Nou between LaLiga, Champions League, Glass of Rey and the Supercopa of Spain, with a lethal balance of the culés: 14 victories and eight ties. This Sunday, from the 16:15 hours (CEST), the ones of Xavi Hernández will look for the fifteenth triumph.
