MADRID, 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid will try to end their bad streak in the derbies against Atlético de Madrid this Sunday and get a victory this Sunday in their early match on matchday 16 of League F to take them out of the fight for second place, while FC Barcelona will seek to strengthen its leadership in the visit of Real Sociedad.
The domestic competition is stopped for these holidays and takes advantage of this Three Kings’ Eve weekend to advance the duels of the four teams involved in the Spanish Super Cup in Leganés in two weeks, which also bring together in this case the current four first classified.
The most attractive clash will be at the Ciudad Deportivo de Alcalá de Henares where an Atlético that finished 2024 with doubts will face off against a more solid Real Madrid that will defend its second place in the table, although it still has pending league clashes.
The Madrid team is three points ahead of the rojiblanco, who has two more games, so a win would allow them to put distance on their rival. However, beating Atlético has become complicated for the team coached by Alberto Toril.
In fact, Real Madrid has not been able to do so in the last six games, among all competitions, and has to go back to December 2022 to see its last victory, 1-0 at the Alfredo di Stéfano and with a goal in the final minutes of Kathellen Souza. Months before, in March and the previous campaign, they achieved their last victory away from home (0-2).
This statistic reduces the theoretical favoritism of the merengue team against an Atlético that was doubtful in the last weeks of the year and that will try to end its rival’s undefeated league away record. The team led by Víctor Martín closed 2024 with a difficult pass to the quarterfinals of the Queen’s Cup, a joy to alleviate a bad streak in League F.
The red and whites have only been able to win one of their last six league games and that, in addition to definitively distancing them from FC Barcelona, already 14 points away, had caused the rest of their rivals to get dangerously close to third place, whom they hope to distance again. with a new triumph of great emotional value.
And one of those teams that aspires to third place behind Atlético is Real Sociedad, fourth classified with two points, but with one game less, and which has a difficult time overtaking them in the standings since they visit FC Barcelona at the Johan Cruyff Stadium.
The leader and current champion, who will have the return of Caroline Graham Hansen, continues without losing a game in the domestic competition and also closed their historic 2024 showing a high level, especially with their victory against the English Manchester City in the Champions League.
However, the realistic coach, José Luis Sánchez Vera, who will not be able to count on Claire Lavogez, has already found the formula on other occasions to counteract the Blaugranas as was the case last season when, as coach of Levante UD, he managed that ‘granota’ was the first team not to lose in the ‘culer’ fiefdom by drawing 1-1.
In addition, on Sunday the Valencian derby will also be played in the Ciutat de València between Levante UD and Valencia CF, postponed at the time due to the tragic DANA last October and which is key for both since they are third from last and bottom. respectively, although the locals are seven points ahead of the ‘che’, who have not yet won this campaign.