The Catalans will visit Villarreal, Unai Emery’s men have not been able to beat Barça in the last twelve times they have received him at La Cerámica.
The Santander League faces the final stretch of the first round with the Real Madrid as a new leader to welcome the Sevilla; the Real society attentive in case you can recover it in the field of Spanish and the third commitment of Xavi Hernandez on the bench Barcelona on Villarreal.
Matchday 15 of the calendar involves a mandatory chip change after the Champions League commitments, only fully satisfactory for Real Madrid, the only one who assured his pass to the round of 16, and who resumed the League dressed as a leader.
The league table is still very tight. The team of Carlo Ancelotti He only has one point more than Real Sociedad, two more than Sevilla and four more than him Atlético de Madrid. Betis and Rayo Vallecano follow them in Europa League positions, with the Barça, seventh to 10 points of his eternal rival.
The whites return to Santiago Bernabeu after the trip to Moldova to play the star game against Sevilla, a week after the win in Granada (1-4), his third success in a row and the return to the leadership that he had given up on matchday 9.
It will be a new reunion with Julen Lopetegui as a coach from Seville, concerned about the state of players like the Brazilian Diego Carlos, who could not finish the clash with Wolfsburg, the Argentine Eric Lamela, who did not play in this, and the winger Suso Fernández, who suffered from an injury against Alavés.
Other parties
Apart from what happens in Madrid will be the Real society, who visits the Spanish after giving up the first position he held for five days. The eleventh of Imanol Sheriff did not go from 0-0 with the Valencia but he arrives undefeated in a clash against an opponent who has won 4 of the 7 games he has played at home. The donostiarras will lose Aritz Elustondo, sanctioned with two games.
The Atlético de Madrid will have to forget his black night before him Milan and the problems with which he won Osasuna on his visit to Cádiz. The eleventh of Alvaro Cervera He wants to add his first victory at home and get away from the red zone, after the 4-0 conceded in Getafe.
In positions of Europa League will be played on Betis-Levante and Valencia-Rayo Vallecano. The first after the Chilean team Manuel Pellegrini apply a corrective (0-3) to Elche, which forced the dismissal of Fran Scribe, with which he returned to First this campaign. Levante still did not win and their points are the result of 7 draws.
Valencia-Rayo comes after Valencia’s draw with Real, who collaborated in the change of leader. Jose Bordalás is pending to recover players in a clash where the rayistas will lose by penalty at the half point Argentine Oscar Trejo. Those of Andoni Iraola They are still sweet and intend to break their bad dynamics in Mestalla, where they have lost in 14 of their 18 visits.
Barcelona, three points behind the Madrilenians, will visit Villarreal, which they lead by four. Will be the third meeting with Xavi Hernandez in command days after Barça’s disappointment against Benfica. Unai Emery’s men have not been able to beat Barça in the last twelve times they have received him at La Cerámica.
The day will open tomorrow with the Athletic-Granada, conditioned by the injuries in both and by the absence due to sanction of the Andalusian coach, Robert moreno, after his expulsion against Real Madrid, and will also present the duels Alavés-Celta and Mallorca-Getafe.
The one from Vitoria will face two teams stuck in the table, separated by a point (14 and 13, respectively), who face after two draws with Sevilla and Villarreal. The locals are in good spirits because they were close to beating Sevilla and the Galicians are waiting to recover their captain Hugo Mallo and straighten a course That keeps them too close to the danger zone.
The one in Mallorca will be another test for the recovery of Getafe, which with the 4-0 victory over Cádiz achieved its biggest victory in two years. Those of Luis Garcia Plaza await the return of Japanese Takefusa Kubo, injured since the end of September, and meet again with a victory that six days without celebrating.
The last game will be played Osasuna and Elche on the night of Monday 29. The people from Alicante face it in decline with 11 points, the same as the Granada that preceded them, two more than Getafe and four more than Levante.
It will be the first without Fran Scribe on the bench at El Sadar, a field where the Elche has not won for 61 years in First division and where the Navarrese have only celebrated one victory this year. The team of Jagoba Arrasate, with the loss of Rober Ibáñez due to covid-19, he has linked two draws and three defeats and has four games without scoring.
Matchday 15
Friday, November 26
Athletic Club-Granada
Saturday, November 27
Alaves-Celta
Valencia-Rayo Vallecano
Mallorca-Getafe
Villarreal-Barcelona
Sunday November 28
Betis-Levante
Espanyol-Real Sociedad
Cádiz-Atlético de Madrid
Real Madrid-Seville
Monday, November 29
Osasuna-Elche. (D)
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