Barcelona beat bottom Huesca by the minimum in the Spanish League



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Jan 03, 2021 – 06:18 pm
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AFP Agency

Barcelona won 1-0 in the bottom half of Huesca, this Sunday in the 17th league match, while Atlético de Madrid beat Alavés 2-1, thanks to a goal by Luis Suárez in the 90th minute, and remained leader.

A shot from Frenkie de Jong to a pass from Lionel Messi (27) gave a golden victory to the Catalans, located ten points behind the rojiblanco leaders.

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Barça was reactivated this Sunday with the return of Leo Messi, having overcome ankle problems, to further enlarge his legend by playing his 500th game in the League.

The Rosario was, together with the young Pedri, the catalyst for his team’s game, although without being able to find the opposite meshes in a match, which Barça dominated from start to finish drowning Huesca with their pressure.

“In general, taking away the last twenty minutes, we were good in our game, we have created a lot of danger, which is not easy against a team that closes back. We have made a great goal and we had two or three more occasions to distance ourselves,” said the Barça coach, Dutchman Ronald Koeman, after the game.

The Barça team came in danger on the left with the entrances of Ousmane Dembélé and Jordi Alba, but they ran into the good performance of goalkeeper Álvaro Fernández, who stopped dangerous shots from Pedri at point-blank range (7) or Messi (41, 68) .

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Fernández, on the other hand, could not do anything against Frenkie de Jong’s point-blank shot, taking advantage of a measured pass from Messi (27), who returned to play after his Christmas interview in which he assured that he will not make any decision about his eventual departure from Barça until the end of the season.

Huesca tried to react in the last 20 minutes of the match, but could not with the defensive pressure of Barcelona, ​​which continued to harass the opposing goal until the end, although the scoreboard would not move again.

While Huesca continues to sink to the bottom of the table, Barça advance to 5th place, ten points behind Atlético de Madrid, who beat Alavés 2-1.



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