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Key week in LaLiga: Three matches to fight for the lead

Published:21/09/2019 - 00:36h

Updated:21/09/2019 - 00:36h

Barça starts this Saturday a week with three matches, that will be key to fight for the lead of LaLiga. The catalans want to get victories in all their fixtures, and their rivals also will offer opportunities

The FC Barcelona has begun the season of irregular form, but this week the calendar offers him an important opportunity. The Catalans prepare to restart LaLiga with an esprint of three days followed, in which they will treat to go back to the senda of the victories and also will have to loan a lot of attention to what do his main opponents, that will put at stake the first place.

The direct duels in the high part of the classification will encourage the battle by the leadership, that has tightened in a start of course in which anybody has attained to certify a plenary of triumphs. Before initiating the fifth date of the tournament, the Seville commands with 10 points; above the Athletic (9 points); the Real Madrid and the Athletic Club (with 8); and a group in which they are empatados the Barcelona, the Granada, the Real Sociedad and the Osasuna (with 7).

With permission of the clubs that have done the duties up to now, the applicants to the title are not so many, and face a period with several direct clashes. This will cause remarkable changes in the table, by what follow adding of three in three will have more value that never, since repercutirá in the morals of the own footballers, more motivated if the positive feelings, and will have the contrary effect in the opponents, that could see as they tie up the first advantages.

The Barcelona are forced to break his bad series to domicile, since two of his commitments are far of the City Condal. The first, against the Granada in The Cármenes, afterwards against the Villarreal in the Camp Nou and to finish, a visit to the Getafe in the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez. There is not moment to relax , and start after some initial doubts would have reward ensured.

The Seville will be to proof from this weekend, in which it touches him measure to the Real Madrid in Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán. The Andalusians still have not attained to consolidate like real alternative in the championship, but if they go back to win and launch a warning to navegantes, will not be able to despistar, because the Eibar in Ipurua and the Real Sociedad in the coliseo sevillista neither will put it to him easy.

The one who seemed intocable and no longer is it is the Athletic that already prepares for the derbi in Wanda Metropolitan. This will be the Saturday 28 September, because before it will have to take carrerilla in front of a Celtic of Vigo that will try to take advantage of his last defeat in Anoeta -home- and the RCD Mallorca -in Sound Moix-, that does not want that they take him to prank in spite of being a recently risen.

The one who is demanded to the limit is, precisely, the Real Madrid, that expects to leave backwards a painful trip in Champions. The pupilos of Zinedine Zidane left a horrible image in Paris and have to encourage for parking it, since his challenge is capital, with the visit to the Seville in the Pizjuán, a clash against Osasuna in Santiago Bernabéu and the crossing against the rojiblancos in the stadium 'colchonero'.