XAVI HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DEFEAT LIGHTNING
Xavi's Barça will seek to break their 'curse' against Rayo
Published:23/11/2023 - 00:22h
Updated:23/11/2023 - 00:22h
FC Barcelona will return to action in LaLiga this Saturday against a very complicated opponent: Rayo Vallecano. Since the return of the Madrid team to First Division in the 2021/22 season, the culés have not been able to beat them
The visit of the FC Barcelona to the Ray Vallecano this Saturday (14:00 h CEST) supposes a capital challenge for the ones of Xavi Hernández. From the arrival of the egarense to the Barcelona bench, the great Madrilenian group two victories and a tie, remaining with 4 of the 6 points contested in Catalonia. The last precedent between both teams dates of the past 26 April, when the ones of Andoni Iraola imposed by the minimum in Vallecas (2-1) by the day 31 of LaLiga.
Previously, the Ray had rescued a point in the Spotify Camp Nou in the first day of the tournament. The culés finished in 21 opportunities, six of them to door, but could not win the resistance of the goalkeeper macedonio Stole Dimitrievski. In the last visit to Vallecas, the Barça recently could discount in the minute 83 by means of Robert Lewandowski, a so much that only served to the Pole to ensure his first 'pichichi'.
Xavi still has not been able to defeat to the Ray
The another precedent in front of the Ray with Xavi in the bench dates of the day 21 of LaLiga 2021/22. The Madrilenian group repeated the result of the first turn (1-0), this time in Camp Nou with a solitary so much of Álvaro García in the minute 7. Previously, the ones of Vallecas had won to the then team of Ronald Koeman in the capital, a defeat that sentenced the dismissal of the Dutch technician after the day 11 liguera.
Like this the things, to the Barça comes him a party complicadísimo the Saturday that, besides, arrives in a moment very inopportune. Justo after a stop of selections that left the terrible drop of Gavi and forced to win not to lose him stepped so much to the Real Madrid as to the surprising leader of LaLiga, the Girona. To the Barcelona group has cost him win in his last exits of Montjuïc, with only a victory (Real Sociedad), a tie (Granada) and a defeat (by Champions, in front of the Shakhtar).
The Barça does not win to the Ray from 2021
The last victory of the Barcelona in front of the Ray was in January of 2021, in Vallecas (1-2). The culés imposed in the eighth of final of the Glass of the King with goals of Leo Messi and Frenkie of Jong to surpass the phase of a tournament that the Barça finish winning after golear to the Athletic of Bilbao in the final (0-4). By League, the last triumph culé was in March of 2019 in Camp Nou (3-1).
