Barcelona - Cádiz, by LaLiga Santander: minute by minute, live

02/21/2021 10:10

• Clarín.com

• sports

Updated 02/21/2021 10:21 AM

After the blow (one more) suffered in the Champions League with the 4 to 1 defeat at the Camp Nou against PSG, FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi return to the pitch to face Cádiz for date 24 of the Liga de Spain, trying not only to leave behind the terrible drink against the French but also to get closer to Atlético de Madrid, leader of the domestic championship.

The game is played from 10am in Argentina and is televised by DirecTV.

Although it was speculated that after the Champions League stumble, DT Ronald Koeman hit a swerve with several name changes, the Dutchman repeats the 11 that they played from the beginning against the Parisians.

These players are trying to recover from another bulky fall in the top European competition, something that Barsa has suffered every year from 2017 onwards, and they have a good opportunity to do so as they face a team of the weakest in the championship, which is marching 15th but only three points from the descent.

In addition, there is the incentive of the Atlético de Madrid draw.

Diego Simeone's team (55 points) let two points escape against Levante on Saturday (it equaled 1 to 1) and gave Leo and company (46) the chance to, with a win, be only six away with the same number of parties, when until not long ago the gap was almost fifteen units.

The victory would also allow him to get closer to Real Madrid, which is the third in contention in this fight and is second, with 52 points, after his success on Saturday 1-0 against Valladolid.

In the first minutes, the Catalan team dominates the ball and spaces, but reaching 20 minutes, despite spending most of the time in the last 3/4 of the rival field, it was not able to generate more than an isolated scare a couple of shots from outside Alba, Dembelé and

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Trainings:

Barcelona:

Ter Stegen: Dest, Piqué, Lenglet, Jordi Alba;

Sergio Busquets, De Jong, Pedri: Dembélé, Messi and Griezmann.

Cádiz:

Ledesma;

Iza Carcelén, Fali, Mauro, Espino;

Salvi, Perea, Jon Ander Garrido, Jairo;

Nephew and Negredo.