The two faces of Mateu Lahoz, the referee that will lead the Barça-Athletic

The duel between the FC Barcelona and the AthleticClub , that will contest this Sunday 31 January in the Camp Nou to the 21.00 hours, will be directed by Mateu Lahoz, of the one who has very good memories the Catalans, since it directed the split suspender belt in front of the Osasuna that finished in goleada 4-0 in favour of the Barcelona, in an afternoon remembered by the homage of Leo Messi to the recent died Diego Armando Maradona.

The Valencian referee will be supported from the VAR by José Luis Munuera Montero, in a commitment in which the Barça will look for to add of to three by fifth consecutive time after the tie the past 29 December in front of the Eibar, for like this follow approximating to the leadership, that still follows far and in hands of the Athletic of Madrid. Although, if all goes well and the Real Madrid punctures, the possible jump would be until the second box of the classification.

Lahoz Has directed to the Barça in a total of 40 parties, in which the directed by Ronald Koeman harvested a total of 28 triumphs by eight ties and only four defeats. A register that invites to the optimism, in the middle of what seems a slight stability in the sportive crisis that came suffering the team, that is encarrilando of to little the things in LaLiga and that this Wednesday attained the pass to fourth final of the Glass of the King after winning 1-2 to the Ray Vallecano.

To add flowers to the garden, 'the lions' and Mateu Lahoz do not carry at all well. The team rojiblanco, unlike the FC Barcelona, has statistical refusals every time that his meetings are directed by him. Already they are 22 defeats, five ties and only six victories in the 33 parties that have seen the faces in the national championship.

Lahoz, nightmare for the lions

To finish, the last meeting of the Athletic stray Club with this referee was this same season in the visit to the Granada (2-0) in the first day. However, they go with the hopes to field enemy to repeat the dose of the Supercopa of Spain, where won to the culés 3-2, same final marker, but favour of the FC Barcelona, of the last crash by LaLiga between both.