LaLiga returns after a one-month break from the World Cup in Qatar and will play its matchday 15 in the last few days of the year. The appointment will be opened by Girona and Ray Vallecano in the Municipal stadium of Montilivi next Thursday 29 December at 17.00in a meeting that will initiate the breakthrough of football in Catalonia and also throughout Spain.
Betis and Athletic Bilbao will compete in a partidazo at 19.15, while Atletico Madrid will end the day in front of Elche in the Cívitas Metropolitan which took place at 21.30. The thickness of the holidays will give Friday 30 December also from 17.00 with Mallorca-Getafe, followed by Celtic-Seville (19.15) and Cadiz-Almería (19.15). For its part, Real Madrid, the one who will take the lead in the last meeting of the day, will visit Valladolid at 21.30 in José Zorrilla.
The merengues land as clear favorites and with the need to bring the three points if they don’t want to detach even further from the top of the championship. For his part, ‘la Pucela’ occupies the twelfth position in the general classification and is three parties from the European places, for which he will try to carry out a company which he has not achieved since May 19, 2000, when he won (0 -1) to whites at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Already in the final straight of the day FC Barcelona will raise the curtain in front of RCD Espanyol. The Catalan derbi will welcome the new year’s eve on Saturday 31 December from 14.00 in the Spotify Camp Nouwhere the culé will try to maintain the leadership without the presence of Robert Lewandowski for sanction, but with a staff that has fully recovered and left the injuries behind. Sergi Roberto, Franck Kessié and Ronald Araújo will return to close the year with a gold pin, even if the perico group will try to follow the example and to move away from the places of descent. Xavi Hernández will have almost all of his arms and he expects to maintain the victory path in this second half of the season.
The rest of the date
The last two matches will take place between Real Sociedad and Osasuna at 16.15, and between Villarreal and Valencia always at the same time. The Basques want to stay in the Champions League places but the Navarros understand that a home win will keep them among the top three in Spain. At the time, the ‘yellow submarine’ wants scalar positions but will have to hold back to a squad ‘that’ stopped with a final victory (3-0) in front of Betis. The Spanish balompié is back.
