The Real Spanish Federation of Football has announced the new designations for the tenth ninth day of LaLiga EA Sports that begins this same Tuesday and where the FC Barcelona will be visiting to the UD The Palms the day Thursday 4 January, from the 21:30 hours, in the Stadium of Big Canarian. For this meeting the attendant to give justice will be Pablo González Strong, Asturian referee that arbitrates in First Division from 2017 and that still has not headed to the ones of Xavi Hernández this season.
However, the Barça has a favourable balance in the 11 parties that has contested under the whistle of González Strong, with eight triumphs, a tie and two defeats. The last precedent was the course happened in the Spotify Camp Nou, during a Barça-Cádiz that finish with a 2-0 favourable to the ones of Xavi. A result like that, now of visitor, would be more than positive for the Barcelona group if we take into account that it would be a victory and besides leave the goal to zero.
The Barça is forced to achieve a victory
Arriving to this last duel of the first turn, the Barcelona group is fourth in the classification to seven points of Real Madrid and Girona, colíderes of the competition. Both teams will be playing before that the Barça in this day, by what the Barça already will know if the difference has kept or has extended to 8 or 10 points with the ones of Ancelotti or the ones of Míchel, that play his respective parties in front of Mallorca and Athletic of Madrid in the day of the Wednesday.
An also positive balance for The Palms with the referee
Regarding his precedents with The Palms, the Asturian -that will have in the VAR to the malagueño Mario Melero López- has been in seven victories, two ties and two defeats of the Canarian team. But the last antecedent dates of April of 2018, moment in which the team of Big Canarian empató (1-1) against the Espanyol. His last defeat with González Strong was home, in front of the Madrid, in March of the 2018 by 0-3.