CRUCIAL MATCH FOR BARÇA
Barça points to the leader with views in the Madrid derby
Published:17/09/2022 - 10:57h
Updated:17/09/2022 - 10:57h
Barcelona must get a victory yes or yes against Elche at the Spotify Camp Nou to keep alive the illusion of finishing the day as leader of the League for the first time since 2020
The first five days of the championship suspender belt have been sufficient to show that the FC Barcelona has gone back to have team to compete by the title. The Real Madrid comes to top champion of League partly because the Barcelona from the first moment left exposed too many irregularities, what finished for sentencing a course of drought in spite of the good movements in winter.
Now, after more than 150 million euros invested in signings, the club has to contest all the competitions with the reason to win them, since it is inadmissible for the Managerial Board add a year more without trophies after similar investment. Like this the things, the Catalans will receive to the Elche this Saturday with the possibility to return to the tip of the domestic tournament for the first time from 16 June 2020.
Xavi Hernández knows that it is crucial to win to the group ilicitano this weekend because the Madrid will measure in front of the Athletic in Wanda Metropolitan, a derbi in where the merengues could leave points and yield his place in the peak of the table. Although to the technician likes him go party to party and not thinking in the extraneous commitments, the true is that this time a tie in the capital would suffice to lead the table.
Two years of drought
From the day 29 of the season 2019/20 that the Barça is not absolute leader in League, when they added two points more (64) that the Real Madrid (62). However, the joy would last less than the expected. In this opportunity was Quique Setién in the bench and in the following dates the culés empatarían (0-0) with the Seville, whereas in parallel the whites defeated to the Real Sociedad to domicile (1-2).
The difference of goals benefited to the ones of Zinedine Zidane, by what would assault again the tip only a day afterwards. From that marked campaign by the COVID that the Barcelona does not know what is to finish a date like pointer, although nowadays, Saturday 17 August 2022, the leadership goes back to be very near.
