FC Barcelona plays its first match this Wednesday after Xavi Hernández announced that he will leave the club on June 30. It will be against Osasuna, a match corresponding to matchday twenty of the EA Sports League, which was postponed due to the dispute of the Spanish Super Cup, which Real Madrid ended up winning last January in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
The Catalan team is fourth in the table, tied on 44 points with Atlético de Madrid, third. If they win the match they would return to that third place. For its part, Osasuna is in 12th position with 26 points, the same as Alavés, which is eleventh.
Barça comes into this match after losing against Villarreal by 3-5. As a whole, the Barça club has lost three of the last five games played, and has won two. For its part, Osasuna arrives with a streak of one draw, two losses and two wins.
For this match, the Catalan coach will not be able to count on Balde and Gavi until the end of the season. Neither with Marcos Alonso nor Raphinha, but it will be during this February that they can join the team again. Ter Stegen is still out due to injury until March and Sergi Roberto until mid-April.
Although the team coached by Jagoba Arrasate arrives at the Estadi Olímpic with all its strength, it is worth highlighting that the last five times that both teams have faced each other, Barça has won. In total, the Catalan team has accumulated 39 victories while the Navarrese club has 19, the same number of times they have drawn.
The match between FC Barcelona and Osasuna, corresponding to matchday twenty of LaLiga EA Sports, will be played this Wednesday, January 31, at 7:00 p.m. The meeting can be seen on television on DAZN and can also be followed live through the La Vanguardia website.
