BARCELONA – Barcelona, with no time to lick the wounds of the 1-4 against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, returns to the League with the clear goal of defeating Atlético de Madrid, which surprisingly beat this Saturday , to reduce. in the Metropolitan for the Raise he saw his income drop to six points compared to the Catalans.
Simeone’s team added just five of the last twelve points after a draw against Celta and Levante and ended up losing to the Granota team, Barça, adding seven wins in a row and reaching a streak of 12 matches without losing (ten wins and two draws), he will meet again against Cádiz, which was, on December 5, 2020, the last rival to defeat him in the championship of the league and arrive at the Camp Nou with a string of four consecutive defeats in the tournament.
Barça’s statistics against the yellow team at Camp Nou are also practically flawless: of 12 visits since February 1978, Cádiz was only able to start a draw (1-1) in that first, after losing the next eleven, the last (1- 0) in 2006 and adding a total of four goals for and 34 against.
Ronald Koeman, who will not yet be able to count on Ronald Araújo, who is still out with Sergi Roberto, Philippe Coutinho and Ansu Fati, warned this Saturday about the importance of the game, even without knowing Atlético’s result, to trust to win back. after the continental setback and given that his team has not yet said the latest news in the championship.
In this way, and taking into account that he will play against Elche again next Tuesday, the Dutch coach could retouch his line-up, in which Gerard Piqué remains possible after his return against PSG, but with the clear attitude to the duel with the highest demands of himself and show the same feelings as in his last match of the competition, when he (5-1) declined at Alavés.