Pre-Match Thread: Barcelona vs Getafe [La Liga]

#Match Information:

 

**Match**: [](#barcelona) Barcelona vs Getafe [](#getafe)

**Competition**: La Liga

**Date**: Saturday, 24th of February 2024

**Time**: 16:15 CET / 10:15 EST – [Convert to local time](https://www.time.is/1708787700)

**Venue**: [Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Estadi_Ol%C3%ADmpic_Llu%C3%ADs_Companys_-_Barcelona%2C_Spain_-_Jan_2007.jpg/1920px-Estadi_Ol%C3%ADmpic_Llu%C3%ADs_Companys_-_Barcelona%2C_Spain_-_Jan_2007.jpg) – 54367 capacity

**Referee**: Alejandro Muñíz Ruiz

 

#Lineups and Squads:

 

[](#barcelona) **Barcelona** – Official squad to be confirmed

**GK**: Ter Stegen, Iñaki Peña

**DEF**: João Cancelo, ~~Álex Baldé~~, Araújo, Íñigo Martínez, Christensen, ~~Alonso~~, Koundé

**MID**: ~~Gavi~~, Pedri, Oriol Romeu, Sergi Roberto, Frenkie, Gündoğan

**ATT**: ~~Ferran Torres~~, Lewandowski, Raphinha, João Félix, Vitor Roque

**Unavailable**: Álex Baldé, Alonso, Gavi, Ferran Torres (injured)

**Not called**:

 

[](#getafe) **Getafe** – Official squad to be confirmed

**GK**: Daniel Fuzato, David Soria

**DEF**: Djené, ~~Fabrizio Angileri~~, Pedro Álvarez Sosa, Domingos Duarte, Omar Alderete, Diego Rico, J. Carmona Navarro, Juan Iglesias

**MID**: Luis Milla, ~~Mauro Arambarri~~, Óscar Rodríguez, Aleñà, Nemanja Maksimović, Ilaix Kourouma, Jesús Santiago, Jordi

**ATT**: Mata, Mason Greenwood, Latasa, Borja Mayoral

**Unavailable**: Fabrizio Angileri, Mauro Arambarri (injured)

**Not called**:

 

#Form guide:

 

**Barcelona**

– **Form**: **[D]** W D W W

– **Goals scored**: 10

– **Goals conceded**: 6

– **Last match**: Napoli 1:1 FC Barcelona – Champions League

**Getafe**

– **Form**: **[D]** W D L W

– **Goals scored**: 7

– **Goals conceded**: 6

– **Last match**: Villarreal 1:1 Getafe – La Liga

 

#Head-to-head:

 

– **Last meeting**: Getafe 0:0 FC Barcelona

– **Date**: Sunday, 13th of August 2023, 21:30 CEST

– **Competition**: La Liga

– **Threads**: [Pre-match thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12n5f7z/prematch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_la_liga/) | [Match thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12oa0da/match_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/) | [Post-match thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/)

– **Highlights**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09UnXz4f7-M

 

#Comments (Post-match thread):

 

Author: **lukzee** | Score: **359** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvf70/)**

> Fuck yeah, another clean sheet!

Author: **santareus** | Score: **218** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvkj6/)**

> We miss Pedri and Dembele soooo much

Author: **dtony1985** | Score: **209** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvkrp/)**

> We have entered the boring 0-0 Xavineta boys.

Author: **arab241** | Score: **171** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvpq7/)**

> When’s the last time this team had any semblance of attacking patterns man, this has been pathetic for months now

Author: **hinto14** | Score: **100** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvjlc/)**

> Disgusting game my God

Author: **noyer420** | Score: **97** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvg73/)**

> Pablo Torre with 2 of the worst crosses I’ve seen

Author: **Visca_Barca47** | Score: **67** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvj61/)**

> How on Earth is Raphinha MOTM

Author: **theincrediblebou** | Score: **60** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvmsa/)**

> Absolutely inexcusable shit game, injuries or not Xavi needs to get his shit together.

Author: **thebrownestmamba** | Score: **52** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvg5i/)**

> What’s the excuse today then?

Author: **ANK_Ricky** | Score: **49** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvljl/)**

> What the fuck. What the actual fuck.

Author: **Nrozek** | Score: **43** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghwlll/)**

> Fucking awful to watch, yet again.

> Continue this shit and it won’t be “we might bottle it” – we absolutely fucking will. Zero threats in attack, just horseshit crosses to nobody. Didn’t even deserve 1 point today.

> Don’t care who’s injured really, this is pathetic even with a reserve team, which again, it wasn’t.

Author: **whysoshant** | Score: **41** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvoat/)**

> Xavi is exposed without Pedri, De Jong and Dembele.

Author: **-The-Term-** | Score: **33** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvgnu/)**

> I really hate how slow Xavi is to react to the game. Takes 70 minutes to make the first change and then subs in Torre in the 88th minute. Koeman would sub in even Puig around 60th minute in games like these where nothing was working

Author: **Juggernautspammer** | Score: **31** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghw1ff/)**

> Terrible lineup and tactics from Xavi.. Again. He doesn’t know how to adapt. Subs were late tactics were wrong.

Author: **StretchOk4818** | Score: **30** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghw6s3/)**

> Doing my taxes was more exciting than watching this match.

Author: **choss** | Score: **30** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghwu8l/)**

> Can we all agree already that having Busquets, Alba and Sergi Roberto starting is a major handicap, these players are the leftover of the players from our most humiliated defeats in the last 20-30 years.

> How much more evidence do we need that they cannot start a single game ever again

Author: **ElliotLadker** | Score: **30** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghxdhd/)**

> If we win this league we are going to remember that 2-1 match against Madrid as the saving grace. I believe if we had lost that match we guaranteed to lose the league.

> Second year in a row that the team dies in April. They are looking lifeless and incapable of anything.

> I have to blame Xavi for these two past matches. The team is not great and the squad is limited, but the glaring issues in the game plan are the coach’s fault.

> * Wasting Balde as a winger and using Alba as LB so that they both cancel each other and do nothing.
> * Raphniha is not a Dembele replacement, he is not a 1v1 winger, and he needs a passer to send him balls behind the defenders. Why do we keep putting him in 1v1 situations?
> * With how small our squad is, and how out of form everyone seems to be, how come the kids don’t get more than 5 minutes? Torre is not our salvation, nor Garrido, nor Alarcon, but if we had played them more through the season then they could be assets right now. A kid who has played less than 500 minutes in the league is not going to solve shit in 5 minutes.

> At this point I just want the season to be over. I hope we can win the league, celebrate and then start planning next season. I’m still not that illuminated nor convinced with Xaiv, and his insistence on keeping Busquets, Alba and how timid he looks at times, makes me more sceptical.

Author: **RogueNetrunner** | Score: **26** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghwnfk/)**

> Won’t be surprised if there’s a post on this sub by someone tomorrow morning telling us all to calm down and stop being reactionary.

Author: **vics-boson** | Score: **25** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvs84/)**

> We were awful. There’s no other way to look at it. I wanted to point something interesting out, though. The US commentator described the field as “sticky” mid game and I couldn’t stop noticing it. The ball moved so slowly. Passes were constantly underhit to the point that some came out even amateurish. Players looked so sluggish dribbling with the ball. Good strategy by Getafe to slow down the game.

Author: **LanceOfKnights** | Score: **25** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghwbzr/)**

> What the fuck is this shit ? Even Mourinho’s Roma with Tammy and Smalling etc are more entertaining. Absolute satanism. Haramball.

> When the team consistently provide garbage displays day in day out, it’s not just lack of talent or depth. It’s on the manager as well. Lack of tactics and ideas. “Tuchel is not of our style, too defensive”. What the fuck is this then ?

> I have got a headache. I will dip for the time being. Holy shit.

> P.S. I don’t like Raphinha’s attitude. If he is worth something, sell his ass. Useless.

Author: **D_sasuke** | Score: **22** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jgi1vqf/)**

> All I’m gonna say is Joan Laporta shouldn’t rush the contract extension

Author: **Kotleba** | Score: **22** pts | **[Source](https://reddit.com/r/Barca/comments/12of8b3/postmatch_thread_getafe_vs_barcelona_laliga/jghvgku/)**

> I miss Luuk de Jong

 

#Quotes:

 

Xavi’s press conference before the match against Getafe
byu/Kindly-Low1346 inBarca

 

#Latest News:

 

[[Article] – Xavi says Getafe not a ‘defensive’ team](https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/football/first-team/news/3907693/xavi-says-getafe-not-a-defensive-team) – **fcbarcelona.com**

[[Article] – Five things about Barça v Getafe](https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/football/first-team/news/3906493/five-things-about-barca-v-getafe) – **fcbarcelona.com**

[[Training] – Countdown to FC Barcelona v Getafe](https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/football/first-team/news/3907603/countdown-to-fc-barcelona-v-getafe) – **fcbarcelona.com**

[[Training] – Training after the Napoli game](https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/football/first-team/news/3906564/training-after-the-napoli-game) – **fcbarcelona.com**

[[Article] – When and where to watch FC Barcelona v Getafe](https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/football/first-team/news/3906863/when-and-where-to-watch-fc-barcelona-v-getafe) – **fcbarcelona.com**

 

#TV/Online:

 

**[Livesoccertv](https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/4678527/barcelona-vs-getafe/)** | **[Liveonsat](https://liveonsat.com/europe-spain-laliga.php)** | **[FCBarcelona.com](https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/football/first-team/news/3906863/when-and-where-to-watch-fc-barcelona-v-getafe)**

 

by decho