Barcelona is close to winning the title in the Match of the Week.

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The draw between Fraikin BM. Granollers and Bidasoa Irun (30-30) in the last round of the domestic championship has allowed Barça to face this Saturday's Catalan derby (18:00 hours, LALIGA+ and Teledeporte) as the first opportunity to win the title and be proclaimed Champion of the Plenitude League 2023/2024. The azulgrana leader has 47 points and has a +10 advantage over its immediate pursuer Bidasoa, so a victory in the clash against the vallesanos would sentence the title with five rounds left to say goodbye to the season. Barça is on the verge of prolonging its reign in ASOBAL, a championship it has won uninterruptedly since the 2010/2011 season, collecting 14 consecutive titles and 31 in total -23 since the birth of the ASOBAL League-.

The Match of the Day will pit two undefeated teams against each other. Barça leads the classification without flaws, with a draw in Artaleku followed by 23 victories, while Fraikin BM. Granollers -third with 34 points- is having an impeccable second round, with 14/18 points after 5 wins, 4 draws and 0 losses. At home, Barça has not given up any points at the Palau (24/24) but faces a vallesano team that has shown its strength away from home becoming the second best visiting club with 17/24 points and only two losses in Logroño (34-31) and Pamplona (30-26). The historical balance of confrontations in Barcelona favors the azulgranas, with 33 local victories, 3 visiting victories and 1 draw. In the first round, Carlos Ortega's pupils asserted their authority in Granollers (23-40).

The Match of the Day will witness a duel between two of the best goalkeepers of the championship: Roberto Rodríguez (GRA) leads the goalkeepers table with 234 interventions and Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas (BAR) is third with 225 saves. In addition, Barça has one of the top scorers of the championship -Melvyn Richardson with 120 goals- and Granollers has two of its players in the TOP3 of assistants: Antonio García (125) and Bruno Reguart (112).