Barça face Malaga tonight (20.00, Barça TV, PPV and
R@dio Barça), a side that is enjoying excellent form and is currently sixth in the table. But Barça will be looking for a win that should send them to the top of the table, should Valencia fail. This would be the eleventh win of the season for Josep Guardiola’s men, but the trip to La Rosaleda brings them face to face with a Malaga side that struggled early on in the season, but is now in the hunt for UEFA Cup places. A job to be done Barça’s pursuit of the top of the table comes against a team that was only promoted back into the top flight last season, but recent encounters between the sides at
La Rosaleda have traditionally posed all kinds of problems for Barcelona. If Barça win, attention will switch to Valencia, the early pacesetters, who play immediately after at 20.00 at home to Racing Santander. If Barça win and Valencia can only draw or are defeated, then the Catalans will top the table for the first time this season. Not overconfident Manager Josep Guardiola has once again pointed o
ut that his side has to ensure they don’t consider the three points to be won before the job has been done. They are up against a side that has just returned to the first division after two seasons in the second, but history counts for very little when we observe that the side coached by Antonio Tapia is on a four-match
winning streak, with Sevilla among the victims. Back after the cup The game in Malaga is Barça’s fifth in two weeks, and they have four more to come almost immediately after in the league, cup and in Europe. After that there will be another international break starting on November 17. So on their last outing to face
Benidorm in the Copa del Rey, Guardiola preferred to rest several of his players, namely Valdés, Iniesta, Bojan, Messi and Xavi, as well as Henry, who had gastric trouble, but is now well again and has been included in the squad for Malaga.
R@dio Barça), a side that is enjoying excellent form and is currently sixth in the table. But Barça will be looking for a win that should send them to the top of the table, should Valencia fail. This would be the eleventh win of the season for Josep Guardiola’s men, but the trip to La Rosaleda brings them face to face with a Malaga side that struggled early on in the season, but is now in the hunt for UEFA Cup places. A job to be done Barça’s pursuit of the top of the table comes against a team that was only promoted back into the top flight last season, but recent encounters between the sides at La Rosaleda have traditionally posed all kinds of problems for Barcelona. If Barça win, attention will switch to Valencia, the early pacesetters, who play immediately after at 20.00 at home to Racing Santander. If Barça win and Valencia can only draw or are defeated, then the Catalans will top the table for the first time this season. Not overconfident Manager Josep Guardiola has once again pointed o
ut that his side has to ensure they don’t consider the three points to be won before the job has been done. They are up against a side that has just returned to the first division after two seasons in the second, but history counts for very little when we observe that the side coached by Antonio Tapia is on a four-match winning streak, with Sevilla among the victims. Back after the cup The game in Malaga is Barça’s fifth in two weeks, and they have four more to come almost immediately after in the league, cup and in Europe. After that there will be another international break starting on November 17. So on their last outing to face Benidorm in the Copa del Rey, Guardiola preferred to rest several of his players, namely Valdés, Iniesta, Bojan, Messi and Xavi, as well as Henry, who had gastric trouble, but is now well again and has been included in the squad for Malaga.
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