Xavi Hernández knows very well that a triumph the Sunday in front of the Athletic of Bilbao is key to confirm another big step to the title of LaLiga. However, a trip in Saint Mamés no only can give wings to the Real Madrid for the Classical to contest the next week in the Spotify Camp Nou, but also leave maltrecha to a staff that already had to lidiar with multiple drops in the last Classical copero.
In this sense, a total of four players culés arrive to Saint Mamés to a yellow of the suspension. Ferran Torres, Raphinha, Sergio Busquets and Franck Kessié will lose the party in front of the Madrid if they are admonished this Sunday, by which the Barça will have to encarar the party with maximum caution, more considering the main judge designated for the crash against the 'lions'.
Gil Manzano, a 'threat' for the Barça
LaLiga Decided to assign the Ahtletic-Barça to Jesús Gil Manzano, whose controversial decisions already have prejudiced to the ones of Xavi this season. Robert Lewandowski reencontrará in his return with the referee extremeño, the one who already sanctioned him with three parties after expelling him in The Sadar just before the stop mundialista, a party in which, besides, the referee threw to Gerard Hammered in the halftime. Like this the things, in the middle of the controversy by the 'case Negreira', to the Barça will touch him lidiar with one of the most questioned referees this season.
In total, Gil Manzano has arbitrated to the Barça in 34 parties in which it has showed 10 red cards, a precedent to take into account for a party that promises to be very physical in Saint Mamés. The Athletic wants to revancha after the 4-0 culé of the first turn in Camp Nou and prioritises a triumph to return to the fight by European places. For the moment, the ones of Ernesto Valverde are ninth in the table with 33 points, four less than the Villarreal (sixth).With the defeats of Ray and Osasuna, a triumph will leave them seventh, to only a point of the 'yellow submarine'.
Three possible headlines, in 'chapel'
Of the four blaugranas with risk of sanction, Busquets, Raphinha and Kessié have greater risk like possible titled theSunday . 'Busi' And the Brazilian had a very good split the past week in front of Valencia, in the case of the extreme being the 'MVP' when converting the so much of the triumph. By his part, the marfileño, the one who came to play a partidazo in the Classical of Glass of Rey, aims to accompany to the captain and to Frenkie of Jong in the medullary, occupying the place of Sergi Roberto in front of the group 'ché'.
In the case of Ferran, the one of Foios has everything to return to the bench in front of the turn of Lewandowski and his evil split the last Sunday. The '11' erró a penalti previous internal dispute with Ansu Fati to define to the cobrador and went back to leave doubts after a pair of performances that evidenciaron a notorious mejoría of the ex forward of the Manchester City. Nevertheless, this does not want to say that it can not add minutes in Saint Mamés.