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Will he remain undefeated? Barça wants to increase its streak at home against Espanyol
Barça will host Espanyol this Saturday in the first derby of the season. The culés have been unstoppable at the Camp Nou against the parrots since 2009, both in the League and in the Copa del Rey
The FC Barcelona will receive this Saturday 31 December to the RCD Espanyol in the first derbi of the season. The Barcelona will contest his last commitment of the year to the 14.00 hours and will look for to keep in the peak of LaLiga of face to the second half of the season, taking into account the wide record of victories like venue that has in front of the group perico.
Xavi Hernández debuted in the bench of the Barça precisely with a triumph (1-0) in front of the ones of Diego Martínez, those who keep a negative series in the temple culé that dates from the campaign 2009/10. Since, the Camp Nou has kept invicto by 13 years with a record goleador in favour of 41 so many and only three fit so much in League as in Glass of Rey.
Sergio García, Felipe Caicedo and David López have been the only that have beaten the goal of the Barcelona to domicile during this time, falling of equal way in each one of the commitments by (5-1; League), (4-1; Glass) and (4-1; League) respectively. Like this the things, the Espanyol accumulates five derbis consecutive without marking while it has fit in 11 occasions, including the so much of Luis Suárez that it sent them to the descent.
Piqué, an absence stood out
For anybody is a secret that Gerard Piqué Piqué always was protagonist in the derbi Catalan, so much by his exert on the lawn as by his statements before and after the party. However, it is time the defender will not form part of the staff of Xavi Hernández neither neither will be able to expand his sack goleador in front of the rival citadino.
The pericos are the team to the that more so many has marked him the exfutbolista culé in his career, with a total of six goals in 30 meetings that surpass the four that marked him to the Villarreal. It is more, it will remain for the memory that the first target of the '3' in the Camp Nou was precisely in front of the Espanyol in the turn of the quarter-finals of the Glass of the King in the campaign 2008/09.
