Espanyol - Barcelona, live | Xavi bets on his eleven gala to sentence the League

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Espanyol and Barça are playing this Sunday a Barcelona derby with opposite objectives. At the moment the goalless draw in the first half remains. Barça will be champion mathematically with a win in Cornellá, closing a championship marked by defensive strength. In addition, doing so would leave their neighbors very touched, who start the game four points from permanence. The team has only won one victory since the arrival of Luis García to the team and needs to close its defensive bleeding, with more than one goal conceded in eight of its last ten games. Xavi, who is betting on his eleven of gala, seeks to lift his first League as coach of the first Barça team. In addition, it will be Busquets' first game after announcing that he is leaving the club at the end of the season. The parakeets, with five defenders at the start, already managed to draw at the Camp Nou in the first leg.

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Pacheco, Óscar Gil, Sergi Gómez, César Montes, Brian, Cabrera, Melamed, Denis Suárez, Darder, Braithwaite and Joselu

BCN Barcelona

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Ter Stegen, Alex Balde, A. Christensen, Koundé, Ronald Araújo, Frenkie De Jong, Busquets, Pedri, Gavi, Raphinha and Lewandowski

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Arbitrator Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

Yellow cards Koundé (min. 1)

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Early yellow for Koundé

Reprimanded Koundé, who stuck out his arm in a jump with Brian Oliván. The first of the match.

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 21: 03

Start the game!

Roll the ball in the Barcelona derby.

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 21: 01

Players are about to jump on the field

Ambientazo in Cornellá. The players are going to jump on the pitch for this very special derby.

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 57

Xavi leads points average followed by Mendilibar

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 50

Barça need victory to be champions

Despite the defeat of Atlético in Elche, Real Madrid's win against Getafe forces Barça to add the three points tonight to sing the alirón.

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 39

Santander League

Xavi Hernández: "Winning this Sunday would be signing an extraordinary league"

John I. Irigoyen

"It would be great if we won the league there this weekend and you know why," Barcelona president Joan Laporta said. He added: "I don't need to explain myself any more." Barça can crown the title this Sunday. So far everything normal for a team that takes 13 points of difference to the second in the classification, Atlético de Madrid; and 14 to the third, Real Madrid. But the incentive, for the top manager of Barcelona, is to lift this Sunday the League at the RCDE Stadium, in the derby against Espanyol (21:00 hours, Movistar LaLiga). Xavi Hernández, on the other hand, does not think about rivalry. "I understand that for the culés it is an extra motivation. But we will not win it against them, but against all rivals. It would be the rubric. Regardless of whether it is Espanyol. For me, it weighs more to win a league, I don't care if we do it at home, away, on the pitch of Espanyol, Real Madrid or Getafe. Those of us inside value the general work, not winning it in a derby. It would be to sign an extraordinary League, "said the Barcelona coach.

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ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 37

SANTANDER LEAGUE

Sergi Darder, a captain against the failures of the past

Jordi Quixano

Three years ago, at the Camp Nou, the tragedy was consummated. A Barça win for the minimum led Espanyol to relegation after 27 years in the top flight. A blow for the club and the players, although perhaps few would choke as much as Sergi Darder (Artá, Mallorca; 29 years old). But from that he learned, to the point that now, with the blue and white team in the fray to avoid another fall into the sewer and with a new derby in Cornellà (today at 21.00 in Movistar), the captain says he is whole to face any situation. This is what he explains with his football and his words, as happened when the team lost to Celta on matchday 26, well. Invited by the club, he approached the vomitoriums to temper the mood of the stands. "Years ago I hid more, I didn't look prepared. Now I am primarily responsible for it going wrong, but I have a clear conscience that we give everything. When it doesn't come out, it's not because we don't want to," he resolves.

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ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 35

Espanyol fans welcome their team

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 34

SANTANDER LEAGUE

The family well avenue of Xavi

Ramon Besa

Xavi Hernández made his debut as Barcelona coach on 20 November 2021 in a La Liga match played at the Camp Nou against Espanyol. That team, which had Piqué, Mingueza, Nico and Ilias as starters while Araujo, Riqui Puig, Demir, Abde and Coutinho were substitutes, competed to reach the qualification for the Champions League and thanked 1-0 victories like the one that occurred then after a penalty converted by Memphis Depay. Xavi's team aspires a year and a half later to win the title at the RCDE Stadium (21.00 hours, Movistar) with a very different lineup, after becoming addicted to 1-0, a result that has been repeated 11 times in 33 League games.

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ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 23

The eleven parakeet for the derby

The lineup that Luis García bets on: Pacheco; Oscar Gil, Cabrera, Montes, Sergi Gomez, Brian Olivan; Denis Suarez, Darder, Melamed; Braithwiate and Joselu.

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 16

Barça chooses its eleven gala to sentence the League

Xavi's derby line-up: Ter Stegen; Koundé, Araújo, Christensen, Balde; Busquets, De Jong, Pedri, Gavi; Raphinha and Lewandowski.

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 09

A Barcelona derby with a lot at stake

Welcome to Espanyol - Barça Liga. A Barcelona derby with many incentives: the locals play a permanence that they already have four points and the visitors, sing the alirón tonight.

ACT.14 MAY 2023 - 20: 05

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