This Saturday the Barça It will be a game to say goodbye in 2024 as leader of LaLiga before him Atlético de Madrid in it Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium (21 hours). The blaugrana arrive at the duel against the red and white team after a very negative streak in the national championship, after adding only five points from the last 18, also chaining two defeats in the last two games played in Montjuic: 1-2 before the UD Las Palmas and 0-1 against Leganes last Sunday.
Even though he Athletic comes to the duel against him Barça with a very positive streak, after adding 11 consecutive victories between League, Cup and Championsand having cut 10 points from the Barça team in just five games, Diego Pablo Simeone He still doesn’t know what it’s like to beat the Barça in his stadium since he has been a rojiblanco coach.
In total, the Argentine coach has faced the Argentine 25 times. Barça in LaLigain which they have accumulated 16 defeats, seven draws and only two victories, both in the rojiblanco coliseum. The first, in the 2020-21 campaign 1-0 and the second, in 2021-22, 2-0.
With Xavi, five out of five
Since that second and last victory of Simeone in LaLigathe Colchonero coach has fallen consecutively in the last five matches against Barça, all of them with Xavi Hernández on the Barça bench. In their first duel against the red and white team, the team from Terrassa beat the colchoneros 4-2 on matchday 23 of LaLiga. In the 2022-23 campaign, in which they would end up winning the league title, Xavi managed to win by the minimum at the Wanda Metropolitano (0-1) and the same result at the Camp Nou (1-0). Last year, the Blaugrana also beat Atlético by a solitary goal, in this case from Joao Felixthen player of the Athletic transferred to FC Barcelona. In fact, it was the Portuguese’s best game in the Barça shirt. The Portuguese played with extra motivation and pushed the Barça towards victory.
Consequently, Hansi Flick He has the challenge of maintaining this streak against Simeone’s Atlético and, in the process, ensuring that Barça leaves as the leader for Christmas.
A league tie
Diego Pablo Simeoneon the other hand, can boast of having won a League thanks to a draw against the Barça at the Camp Nou. It was in the 2010-11 season, with Tata Martino on the Barça bench, and on the last day of the championship. The match ended 1-1 and the Athletic was proclaimed league champion, despite the fact that Leo Messi He scored a legal goal that Mateu Lahoz annulled and that the referee recognized years later that he had made a mistake. The validation of that goal would have meant another League for the Barça.
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