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José Luis Mendilibar, seated in the bench of the Eibar

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Mendilibar smiles by the absence of Messi against the Eibar

Published:28/12/2020 - 20:30h

Updated:28/12/2020 - 20:30h

The next rival of the FC Barcelona, José Luis Mendilibar, coach of the Eibar, is the victim preferred of Lionel Messi. He is the coach against whom Messi has won more matches (18) and against whom he has more scored (31)

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José Luis Mendilibar can sleep calm and rest to prepare to plenitud his party in front of the FC Barcelona, to celebrate this 29 December by the commitment of LaLiga, as his maximum hangman will be the big absent of the contention, Lionel Messi.

The captain of the Barcelona group, by personal reasons or by the annoyances in the ankle, will lengthen his holidays of December and will not jump to the field this Tuesday for the dispute of this apremiante commitment, the last of the year 2020.

Mendilibar Has been the victim by excellence of Lionel Messi. It has the honour to be the technician to the that more split between all the competitions has won him the crack Argentinian (18), and also is the trainer to the that more has converted him goals (31) in his distinct teams, gone on down Emery (27). Besides, it is the technician to the that more has won him in League (16), and is one of which more has confronted (21 parties).

Of the 196 trainers to which has measured , for a total of 749 parties, Mendilibar occupies the fourth place like the technician that more has confronted to Lionel after Simeone (29), Emery (24) and Mourinho (23). However, it is to the that more has won him (18) by in front of Simeone and Aguirre (15) and of Valverde (11), and to the that more has goleado (31), more than to Emery (27) and Caparrós (19).

In case it was not little, his Eibar occupies the place 10 of the clubs more goleados by Messi, after the Seville (37), Athletic (32) and Valencia (29), that occupy the first places of the this peculiar table.

The Barça will look for to triumph in the closing of the year

It is the last commitment by the 2020 that the Barcelona will confront. The Camp Nou will house this duel that his team will have to win to continue in the fight by the first places of the classification, in addition to keeping the victorious course that harvested in the last date in front of the Valladolid. Now, with the absence of the captain the load will be greater, but the destination is the same: add of to three.