The Barça faces the final stretch of the season with several objectives, such as ensuring qualification for the next Champions League by remaining among the top four, continuing to put pressure on Real Madrid to hurry up their options for the League title until the end, and winning the Europa League, which It would also allow them to play the maximum continental competition next season, in addition to the European Super Cup. Two months from the end of the season, once this national team break is over, those of Xavi Hernandez They face an April full of matches. And it is that if they eliminate Eintracht Frankfurt in the quarterfinals of the Europa League, Barça will play eight games in just 26 days.
The game that will open the month of April for the Blaugrana team will be a highlight, at the Camp Nou this coming Sunday the 3rd against Sevilla (9:00 p.m.), in a duel for second place. Barça, with one game in hand, is only three points behind the team from Seville. After this match that could lift the azulgrana to second position if they win, they will have to face the quarterfinals of the Europa League against Eintracht Frankfurt, with the first leg in Germany on Thursday the 7th (9:00 p.m.) and the return leg at the Camp Nou the following Thursday, the 14th (9:00 p.m.), in the middle of Holy Week. In the meantime, on Sunday 10, it will be time to travel to Valencia to visit the colista, the Levante (21 h.).
Knowing now if they are qualified for the semifinals of the Europa League, and with West Ham or Olympique Lyon as possible rivals, Barça will play their second game at the Camp Nou in four days, on Easter Monday the 18th, against Cádiz (9 pm), another rival immersed in the fight for salvation. More complicated is the next League commitment, during the week, on Thursday 21 in Anoeta against the Real society (9:30 p.m.), which also aspires to the European seats. This will be, after five games in a row, the first that will not be played at nine o’clock at night.
On Sunday 24th, the azulgrana will play their last league game of April, at the Camp Nou against Vallecano Ray (9 p.m.), one day after the Copa del Rey final between Betis and Valencia, in a postponed duel corresponding to matchday 21. On Thursday 28, if they had beaten Eintracht, they would play in London against the West Ham O on Lyonto close a very demanding April, before receiving Mallorca, already in the month of May.
The calendar of the Barça in April
Sunday, April 3 (9:00 p.m.): Barça-Seville (League, J.30)
Thursday, April 7 (9:00 p.m.): Eintracht Frankfurt-Barça (E. League, Ida 1/4)
Sunday, April 10 (9:00 p.m.): Raise-Barça (League, J.31)
Thursday, April 14 (9:00 p.m.): Barça-Eintracht Frankfurt (E. League, Lap 1/4)
Monday, April 18 (9:00 p.m.): Barça-Cádiz (League, J.32)
Thursday, April 21 (9:30 p.m.): Royal Society-Barça (League, J.33)
Sunday, April 24 (9:00 p.m.): Barça-Rayo Vallecano (League, J.21)
Thursday April 28: West Ham/Olympique Lyon-Barça/Eintracht Frankfurt (E. League, Ida 1/4)
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