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How have Barça fared in their first La Liga game of the year?

We look back over the last ten returns to league action after the winter break

FC Barcelona will this weekend attempt to pick up from where they left off in 2018: With a win. Their first LaLiga game of the year takes place this Sunday away to Getafe (8:45pm CET), on Matchday 18. Here are the precedents for the last 10 returns from the winter break in LaLiga.

Year Match Result
2009 FC Barcelona - Mallorca 3-1
2010 FC Barcelona - Villarreal 1-1
2011 FC Barcelona - Levante 2-1
2012 Espanyol - FC Barcelona 1-1
2013 FC Barcelona - Espanyol 4-0
2014 FC Barcelona - Elche 4-0
2015 Reial Sociedad - FC Barcelona 1-0
2016 Espanyol - FC Barcelona 0-0
2017 Villarreal - FC Barcelona 1-1
2018 FC Barcelona - Levante 3-0


The record from the last decade stands at five wins, four draws and just one defeat -In 2015 against Real Sociedad. Curiously, 2019 is not the first time in which Getafe have been Barça's first adversaries of the year: In 2007, they played them to start their January action, drawing 1-1 with the goals scored by Dani Güiza and Xavi Hernández.

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