FC Barcelona will try to glean an 8e consecutive victory at the start of the La Liga season. It would only be the second time in its history that he had achieved such a performance. But for that, the Blaugrana must triumph at El Sadar on Saturday evening against local team Osasuna.
The Catalan giants have been perfect in the Spanish top division this season, with 21 points from seven matches putting them at the top of the table, while the Rojillos find themselves in seventh place after a relatively decent start.
Barça aims for eight
Barcelona suffered a 2-1 defeat to Monaco in their Champions League opener on September 19, but responded in the best possible way by crushing Villarreal 5-1 last weekend.
Robert Lewandowski then scored the only goal of the match to give Flick’s side a 1-0 victory over Getafe on Wednesday evening. With this result, the team has 21 points in seven matches. The Catalans are four points ahead of second-placed Real Madrid, who face Atlético de Madrid this weekend.
The season is still long, but Barcelona has the opportunity to take a seven-point lead over the reigning champion, which would be a good lead at this stage of the year.
FC Barcelona are hoping to get Frenkie de Jong back before the October international break, but the club has learned that number one goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen will miss the rest of the season due to the serious knee injury he suffered against Villarreal. It would be interesting to see how this team will overcome this defection.
Match time and location
8e La Liga day
At 9 p.m. French time
El Sardar (Pamplona)
Osasuna – Barcelona
The probable lineups of Osasuna – Barça
Osasuna: Herrera; Areso, Boyomo, Herrando, Bretones; Moncayola, Torro, M Gomez; Zaragoza, Budimir, Oroz.
Barca: Pena; Kounde, Cubarsi, I Martinez, Balde; E Garcia, Pedri; Yamal, Torre, Raphinha; Lewandowski.
On which channel to watch the Osasuna – Barça match
The meeting between Osasuna and Barça will be followed this Saturday from 9 p.m. on the BeIN Sports 1 channel. You will also be able to watch the match in streaming via the group’s dedicated platform.
