A MANDATORY WIN

'War' for second place: The best Barça faces a very irregular Sevilla

Published:2/04/2022 - 23:33h

Updated:3/04/2022 - 19:41h

FC Barcelona only needs to win to recover third place in LaLiga and keep Real Madrid's 'pulse' in the table. The azulgrana face Sevilla in a true LaLiga final

LaLiga Santander has gone in in his final stretch and the FC Barcelona does not have opportunities to make a mistake . Each day is a final in which the Barcelona only have to conform with victories. This Sunday, receive to the Seville in the Camp Nou (from the 21:00 hours, in Spain) in a key party for the fight by the second square of the classification of the domestic championship. The culés want to 'tie up it' as soon as possible, although have a pending party against the Ray Vallecano.

The Barça has the intention that the mejoría in the last months and the goleada in front of the Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabéu were not pure casualidades. The group directed by Xavi Hernández comes with good feelings and better spirits, but it is necessary to see if the stop of selections has left consequences in the team. It foresees that no, put these two weeks have served so that the trainer of Terrassa improve the 'fix' the details or errors of the team. The tiredness of the international can be the point against, reason by which expects some rotation in the alignment.

The case is that from the Camp Nou see the crash against the Seville like a final and have the 'fortune' that the group directed by Julen Lopetegui is living a moment very delicate of the season. It happened to be the big rival of the Real Madrid in the classification to lose bellows in the last weeks and be playing the second square, against a Barça upward that wants to arrive so far as it can in this season. The ones of Nervión only have added a victory in his last five parties of LaLiga (2-1 against the Betis, to finals of February).

In fact, the group sevillano did not know the victory in the month of March in LaLiga (0-0 against the Alavés, 1-1 in front of the Ray and another tie without goals in front of the Real Sociedad), in addition to 'leave' trace back the classification in the Europe League against the West Ham English. To this, it will be necessary to see how manages Lopetegui his staff in front of the plague of drops that has of face to the party against the Barça.

In an entirely different situation finds the Barcelona group, that has come giving steps of giants in the last two months. Xavi Hernández has achieved to give with the 'key' of the team and the results are more than evident. The Barça does not know the defeat in LaLiga from principles of December and, to win to the Seville, will add his sixth consecutive victory in the domestic championship.

The Barcelona have become a stronger team, decisive and recognizable. They win his parties with solvency, but also go of recital in recital. The Real Madrid was the last victim, in Santiago Bernabéu and the intention of the Barça is to repeat the history in front of the Seville this Sunday to stick to the first positions of the championship and sentence, once and for all, his participation in the next Champions League.

The drops for the Barça-Seville

Xavi Hernández will not be able to have five players. To the drops known of Ansu Fati, Samuel Umtiti and Sergi Roberto, those who continue recovering of his respective physical ailments, have confirmed two more. Sergiño Dest Has not recovered of the injury in the biceps femoral of the left thigh that suffered in the party against the Galatasaray. Neither it will be available Luuk of Jong, the one who gave positive by COVID-19 in the previous of the clash against his ex team.

In the Seville the situation is much more dramatic. The last in adding has been Delaney, lesionado in the crash between Denmark and Low Countries. The Danish has recaído of his grave injury in the twin of the left leg, a muscular break that suffered in a training and that had him out of the team a month.There are five players more than will not be available to visit to the Barcelona and that are causing a true quebradero of head to Julen Lopetegui, the one who remains with very few options to pose his next clashes in LaLiga Santander. Suso, 'Papu' Gómez, Rafa Mir, Fernando and Coins will not play, whereas Bono, on the other hand, suffered a very strong traumatism in the Morocco against Democratic Republic of the Congo and asked the change before the rest. It will be doubt to the end.