20:56
Girona has not yet won a competitive game against their big Catalan rivals. Barcelona won four of the six games. Girona got the two points away from home, of course at the Camp Nou – including last season (0-0).
8:48 p.m
While Girona is number two in Spain away from home, the same applies to Barça in the home table, even though the only national defeat occurred in the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona – fittingly against Real Madrid (1:2) at the end of October. Shortly afterwards, they suffered their only defeat in the group phase of the Champions League – 1-0 against Shakhtar Donetsk in Hamburg. Nevertheless, the Blaugrana have already secured a place in the round of 16 at European level.
20:41
Girona are particularly strong away from home and have picked up as many points on the road as they did at home (19). No game was ever lost abroad. Only at the start of the season at Real Sociedad did they lose points (1:1). This was followed by six away wins in a row. Girona suffered the only defeat of the season mentioned at home against Real Madrid at the end of September (0:3). At the same time, this was the only game in which they didn’t score their own goal.
8:30 p.m
In this top encounter, the currently fourth-placed team hosts the second-placed team. Before this match day, the two Catalan clubs were even neighbors in the table, but are separated from each other by four points. Both teams have only lost one league game this season. Girona has been on an equal footing with Real Madrid for some time now, is constantly fighting for the top position with the Royals, and shares the status of the best offensive in the league with the capital club (34 goals this season). And after Los Blancos’ draw at Real Betis yesterday, Girona are just one point behind and have the opportunity to get back on the pitch in the sun today.
20:23
Compared to the 1-0 home win against Atlético, Xavi Hernández left everything unchanged and sent the starting line-up from last Sunday onto the pitch in the same way today – with İlkay Gündoğan, but now without Marc-André ter Stegen, who had a back injury. On the guests’ side, the complete opposite happens. After the 5-2 win in the second round of the cup on Thursday in Orihuela, Míchel completely changed his starting eleven and almost returned to the line-up that won 2-1 at home against FC Valencia just over a week ago. Only the injured Yangel Herrera has to be replaced by Yan Couto.
8:01 p.m
Welcome to the Primera División! As part of the 16th matchday, there will be a top game in Spain’s La Liga at 9:00 p.m. FC Barcelona is challenged by FC Girona.