POSSIBLE ABSENTEES FOR BARÇA VS GETAFE
Three Barça starters and Xavi at risk of suspension ahead of the clash against Celta
Published:16/02/2024 - 14:05h
Updated:16/02/2024 - 14:05h
Barça will have to be very attentive in their visit to Vigo this weekend due to the 'threat' of losing up to three starters for their next La Liga match, in which they will have to host the always difficult Getafe
The FC Barcelona will visit Balaídos this Saturday to confront to the Celtic of Vigo with the risk to lose until four footballers for his next meeting in LaLiga by accumulation of cards. The culés will bump in front of the Galician team with Robert Lewandowski, Cancel and Araújo in the list of alert 'yellow', those who accumulate four yellow cards up to now, to the equal that Oriol Romeu, the one who is still in doubt for the meeting.
In front of this, the four footballers, three of them very headlines, are to a card more than being suspended a day. In the same situation finds also Xavi Hernández, adding of equal way four cautions, by what the Committee of Competition would sanction it with a party in the case that some protest of his finish in something more than a warning of the fourth referee of the party.
Xavi, leading of a lot of cautions from 2021
The míster Catalan has been admonished against the Athletic, The Palms, Villarreal and Granada, seeing these four yellow in a period of two months and half. To see the fifth, would lose the third party by sanction of this season, since it was expelled in the first day, against the Getafe, for protesting after being warned and could not seat in the bench against the Cádiz neither the Villarreal.
Besides, 'Sport' has signalled this Friday that the quantity of cards for Xavi and his staff has gone in increase considerably afterwards that in his first course saw 8 yellow and 1 red (Òscar Hernández), in the second (2022-23) showed them 12 yellow and 1 red (Òscar Hernández) and in the third, that finds developing, already accumulate 8 yellow and 5 red (Xavi, De la Fuente -2-, Sergio Cheerful and Òscar Hernández), totalizando already 28 yellow and 7 red.
Parties of high intensity for the Barça
By his part, Lewandowski saw the yellow cards against the Villarreal, Osasuna, Alavés and Villarreal (second turn), Romeu in front of the Mallorca, Athletic, Ray Vallecano and Villarreal. Already regarding the defences, Joao Cancel was admonished in the parties against the Seville, Granada, Athletic and Valencia and Ronald Araújo in front of the Athletic, Girona, Almería and Villarreal.
