Match report FC Barcelona vs Sevilla FC

 

Match report

Clash of unbeaten giants

Jordi Clos

Barça host Sevilla at the Camp Nou at 22.00 (R@dio Barça) this evening in a game that brings together two sides that have yet to lose this season and that have the best defensive records in La Liga. Also tonight, Cesc is back.

The visitors at the Camp Nou tonight are Sevilla, “one of the big teams in La Liga”, according to FCB coach Pep Guardiola . The game brings together the teams currently lying in first and fourth place in the league table. 

Barcelona have been on stunning home form in the championship so far, where they have scored 21 goals in four games and not conceded any. 

Cesc returns 

Barça can welcome back Cesc Fàbregas this evening after he was declared fully recovered from his hamstring injury on Friday. The only players still sidelined are Piqué, Alexis and Afellay. Reserve player Isaac Cuenca, who made his Champions League debut on Wednesday, has been involved in training sessions with the first team this week and may be back in the team to face Sevilla in what will be the third game for the Catalans at the Camp Nou in just seven days. 

Two tight defences 

Barça and Sevilla, along with Levante, are the only teams that have yet to lose a game in the league. The Catalan and Andalusian sides also have incredible records in defence. Víctor Valdés has just kept five consecutive clean sheets in league and Champions League matches, while Javi Varas picked the ball out of the net last week for the first time in 443 minutes. Along with Munúa of Levante (3 goals) these are the goalkeepers with the finest records in the championship. 

Three major absentees 

Marcelino García Toral is arriving at the Camp Nou without three very important players, namely the suspended Spahic and the injured Perotti and Negredo. Sevilla have drawn all three of their road games so far this season. 

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