Title contenders Barcelona will be looking for their fourth win in a row on Saturday night in Cadiz.
The visitors go into the game on the back of a 5-1 win over Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League on Wednesday, while Cadiz most recently suffered a 3-0 defeat to Celta Vigo.
Preview of the match Cadiz vs Barcelona in the La Liga
Kadesh secured a return to the top flight with a second-place finish in the second division in the 2019-20 season and a 12th-place finish in the first division in the 2020-21 season, before finishing the seventeenth last season, which meant another season in the league.
The Yellow Submarine side finished just one point ahead of eighteenth-placed Granada last season, and early indications suggest that the club will have to seriously fight to stay in the first division for 2023-24.
Cádiz currently sits bottom of the table with zero points, losing its opening game to Real Sociedad and Osasuna before conceding four points at home to Athletic Bilbao in late August.
The Pirates go into this game on the heels of a 3-0 loss to Celta on September 2, and the match against Barcelona was not quite what they had in mind at the time, as the team was eager to give their fans something to cheer about after a difficult start.
Sergio Gonzalez's side has already beaten Barcelona 1-0 at Camp Nou last season and is unbeaten in their last four meetings with the Catalans in La Liga, including a goalless draw in the corresponding fixture last season.
Barcelona vs Cadiz team news
However, Barcelona is currently on the upswing going into this game on the back of a 5-1 win over Plzen in the Champions League on Wednesday, which saw Robert Lewandowski score a hat-trick at Camp Nou.
The Catalans started La Liga with a goalless draw against Rayo Vallecano, but have won their last three league games against Real Sociedad (4-1), Real Valladolid (4-0), and Sevilla (3-0) to sit second in the league. In the table, they are 10 points behind Real Madrid.
Barcelona had a tough time last season, but this season the team seems ready to compete for major titles, and it will be great to see the performance of Xavi's team next week in the Champions League against Bayern Munich.
With the arrival of Lewandowski, the team has delivered a truly world-class performance in the forward center, and the Polish international has scored eight goals in the last four games for the club.
Barcelona will know that the margin for error in La Liga is small due to the quality of Real Madrid, and although Cadiz's recent record against them is impressive, it would be a shock if Belgrana were to be left with points in this game as they press on. Since the draw against Rayo almost a month ago.
Cadiz will have to do without John Ander Garrido again this weekend due to knee problems, while Ruben Alcaraz remains questionable, but otherwise, the home team is fit.
Coach Sergio is expected to make some changes from the team that lost by three goals at Celta, with Lucas Perez, Ruben Sobrino, and Alex possibly in.
It is also possible that Anthony Lozano and Brian Ocampo will be out, but despite the disappointing result and the performance shown recently, there will be no major changes.
On Barcelona's side, Sergi Roberto is unavailable due to a minor muscle injury he picked up against Pilsen, although Xavi stresses that the problem is not severe.
The coach will keep an eye on next week's game against Bayern but is expected to call up the players who were not in the squad against Pilsen, such as Jaffe, Rafinha, Ronald Araujo, Alejandro Baldi, Eric Garcia, and Sergio Busquets. A start.
Xavi will be tempted to spare Lewandowski and Dembele before the game against Bayern Munich, but the duo should start in the closing stages, while Jules Conde can keep his place in central defense, while Araujo may play on the wing.
The recently arrived Hector Bellerin and Marcos Alonso vs Pearson are not in the squad for this match.
The expected line-up for the Barcelona-Cadiz match
- Possible Cádiz starting lineup: Ledesma; Zardois, Hernandez, Jost, Espino; Arakan, Alex, Blanco; Sobrino, Perez, Alejo.
- Possible starting lineup for Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Araujo, Conde and Garcia, Balde; Garfield, Busquets, Pedro; Dembele, Lewandowski, Ravenna.
Predict the outcome of the match Cadiz vs Barcelona
- Let's say Cadiz 0-3 Barcelona
- Cadiz. can draw confidence from their recent record against Barcelona, but it will be very, very difficult to help the hosts get anything out of this game.
- Xavi's squad is all about him at the moment and we expect the visitors to be powerful against their opponents this weekend.
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