To continue the series! The Barça, ten years without losing in front of the Atleti in LaLiga

LaLiga Returns after the stop of selections and will do it with a partidazo. The FC Barcelona will visit to the Athletic of Madrid in Wanda Metropolitan in the research of three importantísimos points, of face to the fight by the championship. It will be a clash complicated by the good moment that live the colchoneros, that up to now do not know the defeat in the competition.

Although the results and statistics do not know of emotions or feelings, and that it is true that when it films the balloon all the books of history leave to be important, the Barça arrives to Wanda Metropolitan with an important series without losing in front of the Madrilenian. It is necessary to trace back until the month of February of 2010, with Pep Guardiola in the bench blaugrana, to remember the last defeat in front of the Atleti in the national competition. In the day 22, in Vicente Calderón, the Barça of Pep lost his first and only party of the championship to hands of the rojiblancos, directed in this moment by Quique Sánchez Flores.

Since, they have happened ten years and the Barcelona has not fallen in front of the Athletic in LaLiga. In 20 parties, register fourteen victories and six ties. The 'Cholo' Simeone does not know what is to win him to the blaugranas, in the national competition, and will look for, by his pride especially, complicate him the life to the Barcelona of Koeman, that finds in the eighth position of the table with 11 units and two parties for contesting. The advantage for the colchoneros, in theory, is that they arrive without knowing the defeat in this season and with win to avenge of the 2-2 of the previous course in the Camp Nou. The negative, is that they will receive to the Barça without Luis Suárez.

It will be the first clash Simeone - Koeman and the reunion of Antoine Griezmann with his ex team, in the middle of a bad moment in his role like goleador with the T-shirt blaugrana. Also, it went to be the first time that Suárez reencontrara with his ex mates and club, but has given positive in the proofs of COVID-19 and will lose the meeting. Anyway, the Barcelona arrives loaded of illusion and with the numbers (and statistical) to his favour.

Atleti, one of the favourite rivals of Messi

Although it is true that the Barça has an impressive series of parties without losing in front of the picture colchonero, the -big- responsible is at all more and at all less than Lionel Messi. The results against the Atleti, in his house, always are very adjusted (0-1, 1-1, 1-2) and the culés have a lot that appreciate him to 'The Flea' by always mark the difference, so much in Vicente Calderón as in Wanda Metropolitan.

In the 20 parties that has the Barcelona without losing in front of the Atleti, the Barcelona have marked 38 goals. The half, 19 so many, carry the signature of Leo Messi, with thirteen goals in the Camp Nou and five in the house of the colchoneros. In the most recent visit to the Spanish capital, the Argentinian was the attendant to give him the goal of the victory (0-1) to his team, after a very contested party. This Saturday, Messi will have the opportunity to mark in front of one of his favourite rivals and to continue with his big performances, as it showed in front of the Betis two weeks ago.