The Canaries won in Barcelona (1-2) in the first round
BARCELONA, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The FC Barcelona visits this Saturday to the UD Las Palmas at the Gran Canaria stadium (21.00), on the 25th day of LaLiga Ea Sports, in a duel of contrasts in which the Blaugranes will try They are immersed in a bad streak of results that get closer and more to a red zone to which they could fall, but they won in Montjuïc in the first round.
Much at stake in Las Palmas, with the Canaries in free fall with five losses in the last six games and the urgent need to add again to avoid its fall to the well of the classification, to a descent zone with which they come, without Want to do it, flirting in the last days.
The premises do not win since December 22, 2024, when they exceeded at home to RCD Espanyol. Now, before another Catalan and rival team of the ‘Pericos’, they need to win again to avoid major evils. But in front of them have a growing Barça, both of play and results, and who does not want to stop in their comeback.
After winning Ray Vallecano for the minimum (1-0) thanks to a goal by Robert Lewandowski by penalty, Barça was augated again, months later, at the top of the table taking advantage of the Real Madrid draw in Pamplona, second consecutive after the matched in the Madrid derby (1-1, in the Santiago Bernabéu) that opened the way to Barça, which came from winning the Seville, to recover that leadership.
Barça de Hansi Flick is fine, which still does not recover Andreas Christensen for this exit but a Fermín López who was sanctioned to receive the Vallecanos. The only discard is Ansu Fati and the rest of the players, except for the last minute, are available for the German coach, who is reconnecting his players to the maximum taking advantage of the ‘rest’ of not playing the previous playoff of the ‘Champions League ‘.
With barely rotations, the Blaugrana team seems to have left that ‘6 of 24’ behind points that signed in LaLiga that made him lower the first to third place and that seemed with the goodbye to the competition. But the improvement in the game, works in part thanks to a Pedri that returns to ‘house’, and results with a smaller bump of Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid have returned to Barça above.
Bad? That at the home of a free fall team that has urgencies can relax. Hence Hansi Flick, beyond having a beautiful detail towards the yellow player Kirian Rodríguez, after his relapse in cancer-Hodgkin Linfoma-warned his players that he does not want an apex of conformism. It is a vital party for LaLiga.
“After the last game we already said that we are focused on this match against Las Palmas, it is important to show our strength tomorrow because this party will decide many things in the classification,” Flick said in the previous one of this clash.
For his part, Diego Martínez wanted to emphasize that his team won, in the first round, in Barcelona. In 1-2 that does not forget. “It seems that a long time ago since November 30, nobody believed and the team made a game to win, deserved it, and also knew how to stimulate us, not only for tomorrow’s game, but for what that remains, “he said.
Data Sheet.
–Posibles alignments.
Ud Las Palmas: Cillessen, Viti, Alex Suárez, Herzog, Mika Marmol; BAJCETIC, Javi Muñoz, Essego; SANDRO, McBurnie y Molerio.
FC BARCELONA: SZCZESNY; Kooundé, iñigo martonez, cubar, balde; De Jong, Pedri; Lamine Yamal, Dani Olmo, Raphainha; y lewandowski.
-Retrine: Cordero Vega (C. Cantabria).
-Stadium: Gran Canaria Stadium.
-Hora: 21.00/Movistar LaLiga.