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LOOKING FOR A NEW VICTORY

Barça wants to confirm its improvement against a Granada on a streak

Published:7/01/2022 - 21:24h

Updated:8/01/2022 - 17:17h

FC Barcelona visits Granada this Saturday from 18:30 h, with the mission of adding three new points and closing the gap with the leadership

The FC Barcelona only can allow add of three in three in this stretch of LaLiga Santander. The Granada antoja like a big stone on the way and the Barcelona will have to give the one hundred by one hundred to finish the twentieth day of the championship with three units that allow to the culés 'breathe' and think in his next challenge, the Supercopa of Spain.

The balloon will throw to run to the 18:30 hours (in Spain) in the New stadium The Cármenes and the Barça, with several reinforcements after freeing his infirmary and achieve the registration of Dani Alves, has to be very attentive to look for surpass to a group 'nazarí' that receives to the culés in a very good series in LaLiga, where do not know the defeat from 21 November, when they fell goleados by the Real Madrid (1-4). Since, they have achieved three ties and three victories, included one against the Athletic of Madrid before finalising the 2021.

The ones of Robert Moreno are living his best moment of the season, by what the Barça can not trust of a team that comes being a quebradero of head for the culés, remembering the most recent results in direct clashes (the 1-2 the past course, in the party in which the culés could put leaders and the 1-1 in this season).

The directed by Xavi Hernández will have to show his best expensive to achieve his third consecutive victory in all the competitions, after the triumphs in front of the Mallorca (0-1) and Linares (1-2). In both parties, the Barcelona group has showed that it wants to litigate for improving his walk in this season and in the New The Cármenes have a new opportunity to try colarse between the places of Champions League; something that does some weeks seemed impossible.

The field 'nazarí' is one that, historically, has given him very well to the Barça, place have won in eight of his last ten visits to the Granada in League -with two defeats- and annotating, at least, three sgoles in each one of the last four visits to the granadistas in the domestic competition. The ones of Xavi will not want to break this series and add the first victory in three parties against the Andalusian team.

The Barça of Xavi reinforces

For the occasion, fortunately, Xavi arrives with a staff reinforced after lyou negative in Covid-19 of the last hours and also the high of Memphis Depay, as well as the registration of Dani Alves in the staff. The egarense will be able to explain, finally, with big part of his changing room to try add three points in the League.

They will not be, however, Pedri González, Ansu Fati, Martin Braithwaite, Sergi Roberto, Ronald Araújo or Frenkie of Jong. These two, went the last in adding to the enfermeria. The central went through the operating theatre to treat a fracture in the second and third metacarpial of the right hand, whereas the neeelandés has an elongación in the sóleo of the left leg.

Forced to win

The Barça only can allow go out of the stadium of Granada co a victory. At present, the picture culé great 31 points and situates in the fifth position, by behind the Athletic of Madrid (31) and to 15 units of the Real Madrid, the one who is still in the highest of the classification. The Barcelona need to add the greater quantity of points to avoid descolgarse very early of the title and, instead, struggle to the end for 'snatch it' to the madridistas... Or to the Seville.