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The result of their last game in the latest edition of the UEFA Champions League can still haunt the players and fans of the Spanish club Barcelona. Lionel Messi and Mark Ter Stegen were eliminated from the tournament after losing 2-6 to defending champion Bayern Munich.
Added to this is the fact that the last two Spanish La Liga matches have not been won. However, Barcelona was not in a very good position before entering the Champions League. On the other hand, there was invisible pressure on captain Lionel Messi as he did not score in the last three games.
Messi and his team Barcelona have chosen the new season of the Champions League to take all this. The Spanish giants beat Hungary’s Ferensvaros 5-1 in their first match of the 2020-21 Champions League. Messi has scored a goal and an assist in the match.
Barcelona controlled almost the entire match played at home on Tuesday night. The goal party started with Messi in the 26th minute and ended with a goal by Osmane Dembélé in the 69th minute. Ansu Fati, Philippe Coutinho and Pedri scored three goals in the middle. Ihor Kharatin scored a goal for Ferensvaros.
After two and a half decades, Ferrero-Waldner almost had the opportunity to celebrate the first match of the Champions League. In just 10 minutes, team forward Tokmak Nguyen put the ball into the net. But he was caught in the middle of the offside trap. As a result, the goal was canceled.
They couldn’t score the first goal themselves, they gave Barcelona an easy chance to score in the 28th minute of the match. Adnan Kovasevich fouled Lionel Messi in the defensive area. The referee blows the whistle directly on the penalty. The Bar গোল a captain led the team with the first goal from a penalty spot.
At the same time, Messi holds the unique record of being the first player in Champions League history to score in 16 consecutive seasons and as the second player to score in 16 seasons in total. It was also his 116th goal in the Champions League. Only Cristiano Ronaldo is in charge.
Barcelona scored another goal towards the end of the first half. The young star Ansu Fati went on the attack in a great relationship with Frankie de Young. The 18-year-old striker recovered the ball from his teammate and wrapped it around the net with a far post. With this goal, Fati became the first player in the history of the Champions League to score two goals before the age of 18.
Returning in the second half, Brazilian forward Philippe Coutinho made it 3-0 in just seven minutes. Messi is also the origin of this goal. Messi entered the D-box and passed the ball to Fati with a clever pass. Later, Fati did not waste time again and expanded it to Koutinho. Kautinho wrapped him in a net with a light touch.
So Barça has to digest a goal. In the 8th minute of the game, Gerard Piqué fouled opposing striker Nguyen in box D and saw a red card. As a result, he will not be able to play in the next game against Juventus. Ferensvaros paid a penalty goal for this foul.
But then the guests got back to digesting a couple of goals. In 62 ‘Osman Dembélé assisted Pedri and in 69’ Messi helped Osmane Dembélé to ensure victory. With this, Barcelona remained undefeated in the last 36 home games in the Champions League.
Italian champions Juventus did not get off to a good start against Dynamo Kiev in the other match of the day in Group G. However, Juventus, without Cristiano Ronaldo, left the field with a 2-0 victory in the second half thanks to a couple of goals from Álvaro Morata.
SAS / PR
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