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Barcelona beat Celta de Vigo, 3-0, at the Pallaidos stadium, on the fourth day of the Spanish League.
Ansu Fati scored first for Barcelona at the start of the match, before Celta’s Lucas Olaza mistakenly added Barcelona’s second goal to his team’s goal, before Sergi Roberto concluded the scorers’ list in time of discount.
Barcelona raised its score to 6 points in fifth place, with two games postponed, one point ahead of the four seven-point lead.
Celta de Vigo remained within 5 points in eleventh position.
Barcelona were forced to play more than 45 minutes with ten men, after their defender Clement Lunglet was sent off at the end of the first half.
Barcelona finally undefeated the Pallaidos stadium knot, which failed to win in the last 5 seasons.
The last 5 visits to Barcelona in Pallaidos have seen him by 3 defeats, and drawn twice, the last of which was in the last rounds of last season, a game that kept him away from the competition for the league title Spanish.
Barcelona’s latest victory at Pallaidos dates back to April 2014 with French legend Jeremy Mathieu’s goal, made by legend Xavi Hernández.
Barcelona were victorious without conceding a goal for the second time under Ronald Koeman.
The match took place under heavy rain, difficult weather and strong winds in the Galician region.
Don’t change a winning team
Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman has made no changes to his squad, who won the Villarreal game a few days ago.
He continued to rely on the 4-2-3-1 method in the presence of the young and promising Ansu Fati.
While Oscar García, Celta coach, resorted to insurance, pushing three centrals against Barcelona, and relied only on Iago Aspas in attack, with Denis Suárez and Emery Moore behind.
I can’t stop recording
It took Barcelona just 11 minutes to score the first goal of the dazzling Ansu Fati game.
The Spanish international winger received a lost ball inside the area, and kicked it in the face of the foot to settle in the net of Iván Villar.
Fati raised his score to 3 league goals this season (in just two games) as the league’s top scorer.
In all, Fati reached his 10th career goal in La Liga, and is the fourth youngest player to reach this record at the age of 17 years and 336 days.
Celta tries to answer
The owners of the field tried to surprise Barcelona, and Celta got a direct free kick on the edges of the visiting penalty area in the 25th minute, which reminded us of the fatal infraction of Aspas that he deposited in the Barça net at the end of the game. past season in fatal time.
But the execution of Aspas this time was not accurate, because his ball hit the human wall, or in the face of Sergio Busquets in particular.
Instead, Frenkie de Jong launched a counterattack and sent a terrific pass to the face of the outside foot towards Griezmann in the 27th minute, but the French forward failed to tame the ball inside Celta’s penalty area.
The excitement rose in the 35th minute when the referee, Carlos Del Cerro Grande, announced a red card to Gerard Piqué’s face for blocking Gabi Vega, but he immediately withdrew when he saw the assistant referee’s banner, which announced the infiltration of the young man Celta player.
Messi didn’t show up much in the first half, but he almost scored a historic goal in the 40th minute, from a direct corner kick just above the fierce bar.
The plot
Barcelona’s position took a sudden turn for the worse in the 43rd minute when defender Clement Lunglet received a second yellow card after hitting Denis with his elbow, leaving the field shot.
The expulsion is the fourth for the French international in 53 games for Barcelona in the Spanish League.
Koeman intervened immediately and did not wait for the end of time, so he decided to sacrifice Griezmann and replaced him with Ronald Araujo.
At the beginning of the second half, Oscar in turn made an offensive change, removing the Ghanaian defender Edu and replacing him with Miguel Baeza, who came from Real Madrid.
Another slap
But the effect was counterproductive, and it was Barcelona who doubled the score in the 51st minute.
The legend Messi penetrated the penalty area on the right wing, and sent a strong cross that hit Lucas Olaza’s foot and hugged the net.
To be the reverse goal No. 2 for Barcelona this season, and No. 143 throughout its history in the Spanish League, more than any other team.
Barcelona’s danger continued after the goal, so Brazilian Coutinho hit Celta’s post in the 59th minute, a ball bounced off Messi in a comfortable position, to leave the net, but the assistant referee’s flag spoiled his celebration and announced his presence in an offside position.
A new cooperation was that of the two sides of the previous attack that occurred in the 60th minute, when Messi sent a cross that Coutinho found with a shot from a touch, Ivan Villar blocked it.
In the 62nd minute, Barcelona continued to press with a new Messi center that passed a bit ahead of Piqué, but cost the Catalan defender a lot of pain after his leg hit the goalpost and required the intervention of the device doctor.
Coman turned to his bench in the 72nd minute, pushing the young couple: Pedri and Francisco Trinkau, instead of Coutinho and Fati.
Opportunity realized
Celta’s most dangerous chances in the second half came in the 74th minute.
The substitute Nolito -the former Barcelona player- received a ball on the left wing, to shoot hard and block Netto, to dribble the ball to the other substitute Miguel Baeza, but the last shot found a new response from the Brazilian goalkeeper, before the ball hit the crossbar and left the field.
Nolito tried again in the 83rd minute with a direct free kick, but Neto continued to attack and keep his net clean this season.
A perfect conclusion
For Barcelona to cap off the perfect rainy night, Sergi Roberto scored the third goal in the fifth minute of injury time … to put a smile on the coach’s face as he left the stadium.
