Levante heads into barcelona vs levante on Wednesday at 18:45 at the Johan Cruyff stadium needing a result to keep its mathematical survival hopes alive. A defeat, or even dropping points, would send the last-place side into Primera RFEF.<\/p>\n
Levante’s Eight-Point Gap<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9s Par\u00eds takes a team that sits last with eight points and trails DUX Logro\u00f1o by ten, the margin that marks the safety zone. Levante has already lost eight matches in a row, so the trip to Barcelona is less about control than survival.<\/p>\n
Anything other than a win, or at least a point, ends that equation immediately. Levante still has DUX Logro\u00f1o, Alhama and Badalona left after this match, but those games only matter if it leaves Barcelona with something in hand. <\/p>\n
Barcelona’s Rotation Plan<\/p>\n
Barcelona will also treat the match differently. The team is expected to rotate because it is looking ahead to the Copa final on 16 May and the Champions League final on 23 May, while also offering the Liga title to its fans on the day of the match.<\/p>\n
That setup leaves Levante facing a side with room to move pieces and a club carrying a far different weight. Levante is the champion of four Ligas, six Copas de la Reina and two Supercopas de Espa\u00f1a, and it remains the first Spanish team to compete in Europe.<\/p>\n
For Levante, the practical task is simple: take something from Barcelona and keep the season alive. If it does not, the club drops into Primera RFEF for the first time in its history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Levante heads into barcelona vs levante on Wednesday at 18:45 at the Johan Cruyff stadium needing a result…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,1860,6722,1148,10105,8182,10106,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-18250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-valencia","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-before","10":"tag-faces","11":"tag-levante","12":"tag-primera","13":"tag-rfef","14":"tag-risk","15":"tag-valencia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}