BARÇA'S 'PROBLEM' IN THE SCHEDULE
The curious curse of Barça with the midday schedule
In the last three games that FC Barcelona has played at 2:00 p.m., the result has been the same: 'Pinch' and very questionable performance. Against Rayo Vallecano the bad streak has continued
The FC Barcelona signed a new tie in LaLiga and supposes a new 'message' so that the team react. The Ray Vallecano knew to take advantage of his opportunities, shut when it was necessary and 'sustain' to a rival that is sinning, more than the account, in offensive production. To the culés is costing him generate occasions and mark goals. The frustration is evident and, if they do not take letters in the subject, can worsen more. Xavi Hernández knows it very well.
The true is that it is the fifth 'prick' in what it goes of the domestic championship (four ties and a defeat) and the Barça can finish to six points of the leadership, in case that the Girona impose in his party against the Athletic (Monday, to the 21:00 hours). The blaugranas can put in an important problem and will have to react before the history complicate more, especially because the Athletic of Madrid follows them of very near.
The 'bad' luck of the Barça to the 14:00 hours
Between all the data that has left the tie against the Ray, is that the Barça has suffered three ties in the last three occasions that has played in the schedule of the midday (14:00 hours). It happened this Saturday in Vallecas (1-1), but tambén had repeated in the derbi Catalan, against the RCD Espayol, of the first turn of the past season, on 31 December 2022. Marcos Alonso had opened the marker to the seven minutes, but Joelu equalised it in the 73' from the point penalti in a party in which they finished expelled Jordi Alba and Vinícius Souza.
In February of 2021, with Ronald Koeman in the bench, the Barça signed the same result (1-1) against the Cádiz CF in the Camp Nou. Lionel Messi advanced to the culés happened the half hour, of penalti, but a goal of Álex Fernández, also from the eleven metres, left the history in tables. In three occasions, the group culé has not been able to break the 'curse' of the 14:00 hours. And in this season weighs a lot.
