Barça-Celta, the first test of the Catalans in their most key week

Published:9/10/2022 - 00:03h

Updated:9/10/2022 - 19:18h

FC Barcelona is playing a lot in the next seven days, in LaLiga and the Champions League. Celta, this Sunday at 9:00 p.m., is the first litmus test for Xavi's men

The FC Barcelona had marked the week between the 9 and 16 October like one of the most important of the beginning of season, and is not little thing. In exactly seven days the blaugrana play a lot so much in LaLiga as in the Champions League, more than what expected . The adventure begins this Sunday with the visit of the Real Celtic Club to the Spotify Camp Nou, from the 21:00 hours, in which the culés have to win to recover the leadership of the domestic championship.

The Real Madrid won in his visit to the Getafe (0-1) and, with 22 points, forces to the Barça to add of to three a week before the Classical in Santiago Bernabéu (Sunday, 16:15 h). In case to add of to three against the Celtic, madridistas and Barcelona will define who will be the leader of the classification, of there that it was a key appointment for the team trained by Xavi Hernández, that also will want to 'shake' after falling in Milan against the Inter (1-0) the past Tuesday in the Champions League.

The culés already have lost two parties in what it goes of course, both in the European competition, but in LaLiga keep in an almost perfect dynamics, with six victories and a tie. The Barça has known to turn into a quite regular team and wants to give continuity to his good feelings in front of a Celtic of Vigo that, although it has started the season of irregular way, is a team that always 'complicate' to the Catalans.

The ones of Coudet, the one who will not be in the bench because it finds in Argentina, come to win to the Real Betis in Balaídos by the minimum (1-0) in a party in which his guardameta, Marchesín, signed a performance superlativa so that his goal remained in zero. It supposed the third victory in what it goes of championship, to add 10 units, after suffering other three defeats and empatar in an occasion. At present, they occupy the eleventh position empatados in points with the Ray.

Independently of this, the Barça will want to impose as it has come it doing of consecutive way in the last six days of League. Robert Lewandowski appears like the main weapon of the culés, place is signing a start of course sensacional and already registers nine goals in seven parties in the domestic championship. It marked the only target in the victory against the RCD Mallorca (0-1) and wants to go back to 'wet' after a very grey performance in Giuseppe Meazza.

The vigueses have in favour the presence of Iago Sails that knows very very how hurt him to the Catalans and has to Marc-André ter Stegen like one of his 'enemies' favourite in LaLiga. It has marked him in nine opportunities (in 11 crashes) and has turned into the footballer that more times has beaten to the of Mönchengladbach, by in front of Aritz Aduriz (6) or Thomas Müller (6). Four of these nine targets have arrived in the last four parties between Barça and Celtic.

The Barça, full of drops

The Barcelona confront a decisive week with the full infirmary. Jules Koundé, Ronald Araújo, Héctor Bellerín and Memphis Depay are recovering of his respective injuries. There are hopes that the central French can reappear for the party in front of the Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabéu, but will arrive very just. The Dutch, on the other hand, could go in in the announcements from the week from above.

The good news is that Frenkie of Jong has received the high medical and went in in the announcement to confront to the Celtic. Although it has lost his condition to title indisputable, is a joker importantísimo for Xavi Hernández, place can play in the centre of the field like defensive or inner pivote, but also is able to delay his position and appear like head office. Now, that only are available Eric García and Gerard Hammered in the first team, will be key.