After a pair of intense weeks in Can Barça with the Glass of Rey and the Supercopa, the team of Xavi Hernández returns to the competition liguera confronting to the Betis. The culés look for to continue adding points to reduce distances with Girona and Real Madrid, but the verdiblancos no will put it to him easy. The group directed by Manuel Pellegrini is a true 'bone' hard of roer, especially in his stadium, where still have not suffered an alone defeat in league.
The Andalusian team is having a solid season and is not had to trip again in front of the Barcelona. The béticos look for to ensure his participation in European competitions and, with so alone a point of difference with the Real Sociedad (sixth, with access to the Conference League), are directed to attain it. His success roots in converting Benito Villamarín in a fortress, since they still have not experienced the defeat home in league, having lost only a party of the thirteen played like venues in all the competitions, against the Rangers in the Europe League.
Besides, the team of Pellegrini also stands out by his defensive solidity, being the third team that less goals has fit in the competition, with 20 so many received, only surpassed by the Real Madrid (11) and The Palms (17). In spite of this, the Betis has been historically a team against which the Barça has had good results, as evidenció this season with the conclusive victory by 5-0 in the gone in Montjuïc.
11 parties without losing against the Betis
Even, with a victory on the verdiblancos this Sunday, the Barcelona could continue expanding his personal record against the Betis, since they accumulate eleven parties without knowing the defeat in front of this team. The magnitude of this series is such, that to know the last time that the Barça lost in front of the Betis it is necessary to retreat until the final of the Glass of the season 2010-2011, and in the League it is necessary to trace back to the season 2007/2008.
Nevertheless, the Barça goes through a moment complicated and the béticos could 'do blood' of this situation and break this series. To measure that goes approaching the end of the season, the light competition goes tightening increasingly and the meetings every time are more important. By his part, the Barça will have to commit very few errors in this second turn if it wants to struggle by the title and, to start with his way to the triumph, will have to win this Sunday to the Real Betis.