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The players of the Barça celebrate the victory against the Athletic

AFTER THE VICTORY AGAINST ATHLETIC

Deserved rest: Xavi gives the Barça dressing room three days off

Published:28/02/2022 - 10:45h

Updated:28/02/2022 - 10:45h

The FC Barcelona dressing room will have three days off to disconnect and recharge batteries for next weekend's game, when Barça will visit Elche for the twenty-seventh day of LaLiga

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After two weeks 'non-stop' in the FC Barcelona, arrives the moment of a brief rest so that the players desconecten and recarguen the batteries of face to a key week in which they will follow 'playing' the life in LaLiga Santander and Europe League, with key parties in front of the Elche (Sunday, in the Martínez Valero) and against the Galatasaray (Thursday, in the Camp Nou).

Xavi Hernández has given three days of party to the players of the first team after the victory against the Athletic of Bilbao in the Camp Nou. The team added his third 'póker' consecutive and left a big exhibition in front of the picture bilbaíno. Aubameyang, Dembélé, Luuk of Jong and Memphis were the protagonists of face to the goal of Unai Simón, but all the team was hit and left big sensacionoes in the terrain of game.

Headlines and acting will rest until the Thursday, when the Barça will prepare his visit to the Martínez Valero by LaLiga. 'MD' has informed that the players that did not see minutes against the Athletic went in in action after it culminated the clash. All remained to play a party of training in spaces reduced of the Camp Nou, which finish happened the half night. Also they will have his rest and will go back to the Ciutat Esportiva in three days.

The Barça confronts to two big challenges in the next week and Xavi wants that the players are to the one hundred percent to confront them. The egarense knows that, although the team has given an impressive jump of quality and that are reencontrándose with his best version, still have not done "at all" and need to be still in ascending line to contest the titles to the end of season.

Win to the Elche (Sunday, 16:15 hours) will be key to follow winning confidence in LaLiga. The Barça chains ten parties without losing in LaLiga Santander (from the defeat in front of the Betis, by 0-1) and want to extend the series to try scalar more positions in the championship. The group verdiblanco has only a point more than the culés (46 vs 45) with a more contested party.

The big challenge of the Europe League

Four days after visiting to the Elche, the group culé will receive to the Galatasaray in the Camp Nou, by the party of gone of the eighth of final of the Europe League (Thursday, 21:00 hours) in a key crash to try encarrilar the classification from early. The Turkish picture lives a quite irregular dynamics in this season and at present occupies the position number 12 in the Super League of Turkey.

Nevertheless, they have won two of his last three parties and will want to give battle to the Barça in the eliminatory, by what the Barcelona will not have to trust of face to the research of the tícket to the following phase of the European championship. It presents like a true challenge that the Barcelona are forced to surpass.

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