Abdullah Al-Haqim 
The “Metropolitano” stadium will be a theater for a heavy -caliber confrontation between Barcelona, the leading arrangement and its host Atletico Madrid, the third behind it, on Sunday, in the twenty -eighth stage of the Spanish Football League.
The last loss of the Catalan club in “La Liga” is due to its last meeting against Atletico himself 1-2 on December 21, when “Rokiplankus” snatched the top of the “Blawjrana”, crowning a period of disturbing slope of the latter.
And then, the German coach Hanzi Felk team managed to stay for 17 games without losing in various competitions (14 wins and 3 draws).
In the Spanish league in particular, the Catalan giant regained the top of the ranking, beating its traditional rivals, Real Madrid, with a goal difference, and one point from Atletico III, but Barcelona played a lower match than the Capital teams.
After a strong start this season, Barcelona lived a difficult period at the beginning of the winter, and some believed that the team was heading towards a disaster, before recovering its well -being at the beginning of this year and changing the entire image.
Barcelona, who is armed with high spirits after reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League by defeating Benfica 4-1 in the total of the two games (3-1), realizes that winning the stronghold of Atletico is very important in light of the trio racing of the title.
Atletico setback
Felk and his players will also seek to take advantage of the moral damage caused by the dramatic loss of Atletico in front of his neighbor, Real, on penalties 2-4, in the second leg of the prestigious continental competition, in a controversial confrontation that witnessed the abolition of a penalty shootout for Argentine Julian Alvarez after the intervention of the assistant referee technology in order to touch the ball with his feet during its implementation of it.
On the other hand, Real Madrid has the opportunity to extract the lead temporarily when he is a guest of Villarreal in a sensitive match.
Villarreal is ranked fifth with 44 points, 5 behind the fourth place qualified to the Champions League, led by his brilliant striker Ayusi Perez, who has 11 goals in 19 games, where the “Zero submarines” team hopes to compensate for his sudden loss against Al -Alais in the last stage.
In the following stage of the 28th stage of the Spanish Football Championship (GMT):
Friday, March 14
(20:00) Las Palmas – Alavis
Saturday 15 March
(13:00) Valladolid – Celta Vigo
(15:15) Real Mallorca – Espanyol
(17:30) Villarreal – Real Madrid
(20:00) Girona – Valencia
Sunday, March 16
(13:00) Leganes – Real Betis
(15:15) Seville – Athletic Bilbao
(17:30) Osasuna – Getafe
Rayo Vicano – Real Sociedad
(20:00) Atletico Madrid – Barcelona
