Saturday, February 5, 2011

Barcelona-Atletico Madrid ... The Catalans are on another historic milestone

The search records Barcelona tomorrow to reach a new record and add its sixteenth consecutive victory in the league, which will become the only Spanish side to achieve, in a duel on Saturday at the Camp Nou against Atletico Madrid in a crisis, but determined to find feat. The current Barca team shares with Real Madrid in the 1960-61 season best winning streak (15) in the Championship league.

One more week before the rojiblanco let him alone in front of the story. After qualifying for the finals of the Copa del Rey, a competition which will parked until April 20, Barcelona will focus on the next two and a half months to consolidate his lead in the league and progress in the Champions League rounds.

The first obstacle in the domestic tournament will Quique Sanchez Flores. The aim of the Catalans is, at least, keep these seven points clear of Real Madrid to visit, four days before the final copera, the Bernabeu, where he could leave the League sentenced. Since Pep Guardiola sits on the bench Barca, Barca-Atletico's ended up in local thrashings lanes 5-2 and 6-1, so no wonder that the Nou Camp tomorrow expect a new victory of their own loose with the mattress set that does not lift his head since he began the new year.

After rest his starters in the semifinals round of the Cup, Guardiola recover against Atletico gala to eleven, with the exception of defender Carles Puyol, who is recovering from left knee tendinitis. The Captain and striker Jeffren Suarez, with a break of fibers that still have nearly a month on the sidelines are the only casualties that have the equipment, once Andres Iniesta has recovered from the sprain he suffered collarbone in the last league match before the Hercules and will start playing.

Atletico Madrid, meanwhile, arrives at Camp Nou in a time radically contrary to that of Barcelona. Lost League Europe last December, out of Copa del Rey and after a disappointing January, with a win, two draws, five defeats in eight games in 2011, Atletico measured morning your credit, further devalued after losing their last three games official.

It will do in a crash of such requirement as a necessity for their aspirations. And eleven points separating him from the Champions League places, the objective for this course, and their latest results even have complicated their presence in the Europa League to five points after losing at home to Athletic.

Tomorrow, in crisis, with too many doubts about his game and coach Quique Sanchez Flores in its most committed since he came to the bench in October 2009, visit the Camp Nou, a scenario that has thrashed out the last three years: 5-2, last season, 6-1, in 2008-09, and 3-0 in 2007-08. But Atletico has already demonstrated its ability to win at Barcelona.

The previous season, at the Vicente Calderon was the only team to beat the Catalan side in the league (2-1) and, a year earlier, in the same stadium, signed an epic match with a 0-2 comeback and finally prevail 2-3 to 4-3. In those games shone the Argentine Kun Aguero, with six goals in their duels against Barcelona, and Uruguay's Diego Forlan, with ten goals to the rival between Atletico and Villarreal.

Both also are the two players in the league that have marked the most goals for Barca in the last four years: five each. Both Aguero, the Atletico team's offensive leader this season, like Forlan, in need of goals and good games to regain his best version will be in the starting line, where Jose Antonio Reyes will occupy one end, with the Brazilian Filipe Luis or Juanfran Torres on the other side.

The media center will be for the Brazilian Paulo Assuncao and Portuguese Tiago Mendes, in an alignment in which there will be changes in the defense down by the sanction of the Colombian Luis Perea, who will be covered with the entrance on the right side of Juan Valera relocation of Czech Tomas Ujfalusi as central.

Uruguay's Diego Godin, the axis of the rear, Antonio López, on the left side, and David de Gea, in goal, complete the eleven likely to visit the Athletic Camp Nou, where there will be Mario Suárez, Luis Amaranto Perea and Raul Garcia, absence of the call for 18 players. Probable teams: Barcelona: Valdes, Alves, Piqué, Abidal, Maxwell, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Pedro, Villa and Messi.

Atletico Madrid: De Gea, Valera, Ujfalusi, Godin, Antonio Lopez, Reyes, Tiago, Assuncao, Luis Filipe or Juanfran, Forlan and Kun Aguero. Referee: Turienzo Alvarez (C. Castilian. Leon). Stadium: Camp Nou. Time: 15:00 hours Central Mexico.

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