Elche, to end the streak of 47 years without beating Barça

The Elche from Francisco will be the next opponent Barça in LaLiga, this coming Sunday (4:15 p.m.), and the team from Elche will try to put an end to the poor run of results they have against the Catalans, whom they have not managed to beat for more than 47 years. The Elche’s last victory in front of Barça goes back to the 1974/75 seasonwhen a solitary goal of Chiva it was enough to defeat the azulgrana team that he led Rinus Michels. Since that last victory, the Elche they have only been able to get four draws to date and all were goalless.

Although it is true that the group from Elche made things complicated by Barça in the match of the first round at the Camp Nou (3-2), the Elche Nor had he managed to score a goal against the azulgrana since the 1977/78 season, when they lost 5-1 as visitors, and had gone 12 games without scoring.

A last tie with flavor to defeat culé

The previous precedent in which the Elche was able to get something positive out of his matches against Barça It was in the 2013/14 season, on the penultimate round of the championship, when they managed to draw (0-0) at the Martínez Valero. On that occasion, the Barça the title was at stake League with the Atletico Madrid and two very valuable points were left that ended up giving the rojiblancos the title with the tie at the Camp Nou on the last day.

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