Barcelona's 13 points gap at the top of the league have been cut down to 11 after their draw against Getafe. Barcelona have been in a very poor form lately. I don't think Barcelona will loose the league but this their current form can put them in a lot of pressure. From where I'm sitting, they will continue on this their poor form until their players that are injured return.
They played better against Getafe than they did against Girona.
This is the first time this season that Barcelona have gone three straight matches without a win in all competitions. A lost against Madrid in the Copa del Rey and two draws in the league.
Barcelona needs to sit up so they don't find themselves in a difficult situation.
11 points ahead of Real Madrid, in my opinion, this is still good enough for Barcelona. Because at least Real Madrid must be able to win 4 matches first if they want to catch up. Even though his performance looked better against Getafe, if we look at the results it seems that this is still the same against Girona. I wonder what's wrong with Barcelona now, they couldn't even score a single goal against Girona and Getafe, both of which are in the relegation zone. Previously I thought that Barcelona would easily win the match against these two teams, but it turned out that my prediction was too optimistic.
Maybe this is one of the significant impacts of the injuries to their important players, next week Barcelona will face Atletico Madrid, I doubt Barcelona can win this game without important players who are injured.
11 points is a distance that will be very difficult to cover. Because Real Madrid also depends on the outcome of the match from Barcelona. Let's just say Real madrid wiped out the remaining matches with a win. But at the same time Real Madrid must see Barcelona lose at least 4 matches. The question is will Barcelona let them lose those 4 matches? obviously they didn't want that to happen. Even if bad luck befalls Barcelona, the chance to see that happen is very small.
Injury has put Barcelona in a poor form recently, we see how they lost their match today against Getafe. There have begin to lose points,but I don't thing that it will be possible for Real Madrid to catch up with them on the league.
I just hope that with this their present form they would be able to win few matches not only draws or loses,if not it will not tell good about Xavi. Barcelona played better than Gadef but Getafe didn't give them the opportunity to net the post.
Getafe played very defensively at home today, so of course that has made it difficult for Barcelona to score goals. Lewandowski had several chances, so did Raphinha and several other players, but they were countered by the good performance of Getafe goalkeeper, Soria. I agree that injury problems meant that Xavi had to rely on a few subs to play an active part in the game. Pedri, Dembele and De Jong are still injured and of course that comes at a cost when the rest of the players are not at their best.
So far Barcelona have not scored a single goal in 3 consecutive matches including the second leg of the Copa Del Rey semi-final against Real Madrid. Their goalscoring faucet seems locked, so of course that leaves the Barcelona manager struggling to come up with a solution. La Liga is getting closer to the end, but if Xavi is still struggling to find solutions then I think his chances winning of title will be even lower.
2 draws in a row is not a good result for them. Before I took their draw last week as normal, but when they drew again I started to think that they were in a bit of trouble here. What I regret about Barcelona is that they always dominate the game, but they struggle to score goals. Once again this must be corrected by Xavi Hernandez to make them even more effective in carrying out attacks. A lot of possession is a very good thing, but it's a shame when they can't use that to score goals.