Xavi’s Barcelona, the most fearsome ‘visitor’
Since the arrival of the Catalan coach, he has played twelve games away from the Camp Nou in LaLiga, with a record of eight wins and four draws.
Xavi’s Barcelona
Xavi Hernandez still doesn’t know what it’s like to lose outside the Camp Nou in LaLiga. Since his landing at the Blaugrana club, at the beginning of November , the Catalan coach has been undefeated in his journeys in the championship, with a not insignificant record of eight wins and four draws. The last one, against Real Sociedad in Anoeta (0-1), has been one of the most complicated and hard-fought, as Xavi himself acknowledged at the end of the game, comparing it with the visit to Villarreal (1-3), where the team knew how to get the three points, despite the arreón of Unai Emery’s team. In fact, it all started at the La Ceramica stadium, since it was against the ‘groguet’ team that this run of good results began away from the Camp Nou. After the hard-fought victory against Villarreal, they arrived, and in chronological order: Osasuna (2-2), Sevilla (1-1), Mallorca (0-1), Granada (1-1), Alaves (0-1), Espanyol (2-2), Valencia (1-4), Elche (1-2), Real Madrid (0-4), Levante (2-3) and Real Sociedad (0-1). An overall balance of eight wins and four draws, with a total of 25 goals for and 11 against.
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It is that Xavi’s Barcelona, which has 20 games in LaLiga, has only lost two games in the domestic championship, curiously both at the Camp Nou and for the same result: Betis (0-1) and Cadiz (0-1) . In fact, if LaLiga had started on matchday thirteen, when the Egarense coach took over the team, only one team would be ahead of the Blaugrana: Real Madrid. And it is that Ancelotti’s men have 51 points in these last 21 games, compared to Barça’s 46, although they have one game less, the one they will play this Sunday against Rayo at the Camp Nou. That means that in case of victory, they would reach 49 points, two below the whites, but well above the rest of the competitors, since, for example, Sevilla have added 36 points in the last 21 games and Atletico de Madrid, 38.