AFTER BEING PRESENT FOR 15 YEARS
Piqué, the great absentee for the derby against Espanyol
Gerard Piqué will be out of a Catalan derby for the first time in 15 years. The defender was present on 29 occasions against the parrots, scoring six goals, with Espanyol being the rival he has scored the most against
The goodbye of Gerard Hammered like active footballer does some weeks has left to the FC Barcelona without one of his main defensive figures of face to the next party of the Barcelona, that will measure to the Espanyol in the reinicio of LaLiga. It will be the first occasion in 15 years in which the defender was not present in the duel in front of the pericos, in which the directed by Xavi Hernández will initiate his fight for keeping in the peak of the classification.
The derbi Catalan supposed one of the most attractive meetings for Hammered, the one who in his moment even affirmed how much enjoyed to be present in the field for this type of crashes. Now, it will have to see it from far after a decade and half facing up to them the rushed forward of the rival attackers in a loaded duel of histories, several of them with him being present on the lawn, so much in the Camp Nou as in Cornellà.
I hammered in the derbi Catalan
In total, went 29 the parties in front of the Espanyol in which I Hammered could be present, with the exception of the season 2020/21 in which the pericos were contesting the Second Division after having descended in the previous course. Of all they, 25 corresponded to the tournament of the regularity, whereas the four remaining developed in the frame of the Glass of Rey, with a clearly favourable balance to the culés.
In 21 occasions the victory was for the Barcelona team, a half dozen of meetings finished in tie and only in two presentations the victory was for the Espanyol. Of these triumphs, 18 took place in the tournament suspender belt, to the equal that the six ties, and only there was a defeat. In the Glass of Rey came the another reverse, but would be the Barça the one who would advance in the two crosses of direct elimination between both casts.
Regarding the individual performance of the otrora second Barcelona captain, went six the targets signed in the 29 meetings; in fact, the Espanyol finished being the team to the that Hammered marked him in more occasions. His last apparition in a derbi Catalan does not bring him very good memories, when it finished being expelled home of the pericos after receiving the second yellow card in a party that finished empatado to two goals by side.
