MADRID, 15 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The F League 2023-2024 will say goodbye to the football year this weekend with a twelfth matchday where FC Barcelona will want to ratify its firm leadership in Tenerife and continue maintaining its already large advantage over its pursuers, who will experience another fight for second and third square, which Atlético de Madrid will defend against Real Sociedad and a 'touched' Real Madrid against Levante Las Planas.
The domestic championship closes in 2023 and will not return until January 2024 and the main point of attention will be in the 'battle' for the 'Champions zone', with four teams involved and two that intend to join, and for relegation, since, for the moment and barring a major surprise, the title seems to be back on track for FC Barcelona before the end of the first round.
Not even the number of casualties that the current champion is suffering has stopped its dominance in this F League where it already has an eight-point advantage over the second placed team, Atlético de Madrid, an advantage that it will try to at least maintain with a new victory on its visit. on Sunday to a Costa Adeje Tenerife, who will seek to create as many problems as possible for their fans in a duel that will be moved to the Heliodoro Rodríguez López, where they will not have the 'advantage' of the artificial grass in their usual stadium.
Behind them, their new pursuer is the Colchonero team, which did not waste the mistakes of Real Madrid and Levante UD last weekend to take second place. Now, the current champion of the Queen's Cup will look for its fifth consecutive victory in the visit of a Real Sociedad that will want to stand up supported by its last two triumphs.
One point behind Atlético are Real Madrid, Levante UD and Madrid CFF, who are waiting for a setback from the team coached by Manolo Cano to once again overtake them in the table. The Madrid team comes to this matchday with many doubts after their new defeat in the Champions League against Paris FC (2-1), which greatly complicates their European future and has only one victory in their last five games, a bad streak that will be put to the test on their visit to Levante Las Planas, who will want to take advantage of the opposition's losses and doubts to add three points that could bring them closer to the 'Champions zone' which is still far away (eight points).
For its part, the 'granota' team saw its undefeated status end during its visit to Athletic Club and will seek to return to the path of victory as soon as possible, taking advantage of the visit of last-place Sporting Club Huelva, which will try to finish 2023 with a joy in the form of their first victory of the season.
Furthermore, the fifth placed, Madrid CFF, does not want to disengage from this arduous fight for the Champions League against a Villarreal that needs points to avoid relegation, while the sixth, Sevilla, six points from third place, will want to confirm his current great moment, adding his fifth consecutive victory against Athletic Club to continue as a possible candidate.
Finally, the twelfth day is completed with the matches between SD Eibar and Granada, second to last and second to last in the qualifying table, against a Betis and a downtrodden Valencia (four defeats in a row) who want to put the ground in the middle with the zone of decline.