The positive and necessary streak that Barça will seek to maintain against Mallorca

One of the main problems of the FC Barcelona in this season, further of the countless injuries that have suffered his players, has been the little capacity to keep solidity and regularity in the defensive section. This important appearance, that was key in the previous season so that the club culé could top champion of LaLiga and the Supercopa of Spain, in addition to positioning like one of the teams less goleados in all Europe, inexplicably has shined by his absence, although the Barça kept the core of footballers of the past year and added new pieces of big hierarchy.

In this campaign, the Barcelona cast has received a total of 52 annotations in 39 parties, a number that surpasses with grow the quantity of targets fit the past year (46 goals in 53 meetings) and that leaves clear that the defence of the Barcelonan picture is not in his best moment. Nevertheless, in the last days, have begun to observe signs of improvement in the defensive appearance by part of the Catalan group. This could explain by two reasons: the tactical modifications entered by Xavi Hernández, that have planted to Pau Cubarsí like one of the 'leaders' of the saga and have positioned to Andreas Christensen like mediocentro defensive, and the increase in the level of game of players like Ronald Araújo and Jules Koundé.

In fact, the apparent improvement of the combined of the City Condal in the defensive appearance has carried to that in the commitment of this Friday against the RCD Mallorca (21:00 hours/Montjuïc), are about to to attain a positive series that had not been able to keep in this season. If the FC Barcelona attains to keep his goal to zero in the clash against the team 'bermellón', would be his third consecutive duel keeping his fence in zero, after not receiving annotations in the conclusive victory against the Getafe CF (4-0) and in the tie obtained in Saint Mamés against the Athletic (0-0).

The FC Barcelona already was about to to attain this series in this season

Although the Barça was near to attain a series of this type in at least three occasions, could not give the necessary step to prolong the good defensive moment of the plantel Barcelona. In the start of the season, the Villarreal CF was the team that broke the aspirations to keep more than three parties without receiving goal, since after two meetings without fitting targets against, after the duels in front of the Getafe CF (0-0) and the Cádiz (2-0), the 'Yellow Submarine' invoiceed them three goals.

The second occasion occurred in September, when the Barcelonan picture attained two consecutive triumphs without receiving so many, in front of the Real Betis (5-0) and the Amberes (5-0), but in the third duel, the Celtic of Vigo broke this series when converting him two goals to the square culé home. The third and up to now last opportunity in which the Barça was near to attain a series of this type occurred between finals of September and starts of October, when the club culé kept his goal to zero in two commitments, winning 1-0 to the Seville FC and 0-1 to the Port wine, but afterwards received two goals in the clash in front of the Granada CF (2-2).

It will be able to the Barça keep this series of imbatibilidad?

Now it will be necessary to see if the FC Barcelona can keep this defensive solidity in the party against the RCD Mallorca, a meeting in which it will not have two key pieces in defensive works. It is necessary to remember that the cast of the City Condal will not have to Frenkie of Jong, a vital element in works of recovery and court, because of an unlucky injury, and neither will have his 'leader' main in defence, Ronald Araújo, the one who confronts a sanction by accumulation of yellow cards. Therefore, the combined Barcelona will have to look for how recomponer his defence to face a duel that is key so much to keep his aspirations to be in the high places of the table clasificatoria as to arrive with a big envión anímico to the important party of half of week against the Naples, with the aim to advance to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.