BARÇA, FORCED TO WIN

Barça looks for a necessary reaction in the League in Balaídos

Published:16/02/2024 - 20:58h

Updated:16/02/2024 - 20:58h

FC Barcelona will seek to continue its 'impeccable' streak away from home and in search of 'reacting' after a suffered draw against Granada. The culés are aware that they have to win everything that remains to be played

They remain exactly 14 days so that it finalise the present edition of LaLiga EA SPORTS. The FC Barcelona finds in a very delicate position and with the need to add all the points that remain for playing , not to complicate more the life. In the twentieth fifth date of the domestic championship, are ten points of difference with the Real Madrid, that occupies the highest of the classification and strengthened after his goleada against the Girona the past weekend.

The Catalans visit to the Real Celtic Club, this Saturday 17 February, in Balaídos from the 18:30 hours (6:30 PM CET), with the obligation to win. They come of a party in which they left very bad feelings. The Granada him 'took out' all the colours to the group of Xavi Hernández with a 3-3 in which Lamine Yamal was the only positive point of the team. They showed his version more 'grey' and went back to pay by his defensive errors.

The Barça, forced to sobreponerse to his problems

Precisely the lagoons in the retaguardia are the point that more are affecting to the Barça in this season. They are 33 goals fit in 24 parties, with an average of 1,3 targets against by party. To put it in context, the past season (in 38 days) the Barcelona received only 20 targets (0,52 by clash). To fault of 14 presentations, already have fit 13 more. Xavi does not achieve to give with the 'key', in spite of all the modifications that has done in his retaguardia.

The return of Marc-André ter Stegen has not solved the defensive bloodletting, because it is a structural problem and that goes much more there of who are on the terrain of game. To the of Mönchengladbach him 'won' in three opportunities against the nazaríes, but also signed several interventions of a lot of merit to avoid that the history went even more disastrous for the Barça.

The Celtic,a team that knows to complicate to the Barça

Against the Celtic, that needs to win to move away of the zone of descent, the Barcelona picture will have to loan great attention to the defensive surveillances. And it is that, although they are in the seventeenth position of the championship, is a team that has known how put them in aprietos in the last times. In the crash of the first turn, signed a 0-2 in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Compannys, something that forced to the Barcelona to give the turn to the marker in question of ten minutes, with goals of Robert Lewandowski and Joao Cancel.

The history can be different in this opportunity, because the Celtic comes in a very negative dynamics home. They fell against the Real Sociedad and Girona by the minimum (0-1) and, also, lost in his visit to the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez against the Getafe, with an adjusted 3-2 that generated controversy by the referee's decisions. Rafa Benítez, that arrived as 'saviour' of the vigueses in summer, has not achieved to give with the key that change to the dynamics of the team.

The Barça, forced to dissipate the doubts

By the side of the Barça, arrive with a sea of doubts by the negative dynamics that has registered the club in these last weeks. In fact, against the Granada turned into the team that more goals has fit in what it goes of 2024, with 23 in eleven partys. The 'good' news is that the Catalans are used to to step advance when they play like visitors. To date, they have not lost when they have gone out of Montjuïc.

The Barcelona travel to Vigo with laa low known of Gavi and Alejandro Balde, whereas they keep in the infirmary Joao Félix, Ferran Torres and Sergi Roberto. This last had the possibility of colarse in the announcement, but has not recovered of the annoyances in the heel of Achilles. Yes it has gone in Oriol Romeu, the one who had been drop in the party against the Granada but has recovered to time.