FilGoal | News | For Diego, Barcelona beat Osasuna with four

Barcelona beat Osasuna, 4-0, on matchday 11 of the League at the Camp Nou.

Barcelona’s goals were scored by Martin Braithwaite, Antoine Griezmann, Felipe Coutinho and Lionel Messi.

Barcelona raised its score to 14 points and jumped to seventh after 9 matches, while Osasuna’s balance stood at 11 points in 15th place.

Barcelona won on a very special day, since today marks the 121st anniversary of the founding of the club by the Swiss Joan Gamper.

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman also played his 700th game in his coaching career.

Osasuna has completed 4 games in a row without winning the Spanish League this season.

Barcelona won their rematch against Osasuna, who beat him at Camp Nou last season on the Spanish League tour for Real Madrid.

The game began with a tribute to Diego Maradona -Barcelona player between 1982 and 1984- with a moment of silence, and ended with a beautiful goal from Leo Messi, which was delivered to him with the help of a Newell’s Old Boys shirt from Los nineties.

Sweeping attack

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman launched an offensive formation that only saw a fulcrum player, Frenkie de Jong, and also started with Danish striker Martin Braithwaite alongside Leo Messi and Antoine Griezmann.

Serginho Dest also started on the right side, despite doubts surrounding his willingness to face off.

And a sweeping attack already!

It was not just Barcelona’s formation that inspired the attack, but their performance early in the game.

Barcelona came close to scoring with a shot from Felipe Coutinho in the 11th minute, but defender Unai Garcia miraculously pushed the ball off the goal line.

Barcelona’s attacks continued with a surprise shot from Griezmann in the 15th minute, but Sergio Herrera responded and temporarily kept his net clean.

The next minute, Griezmann received a superb pass from Coutinho and hit the bird, but his ball went through the post in no time.

Osasuna’s first threat waited until the 18th minute when Johnny crossed to Ante Podemir, but the Croatian forward’s shot passed over Barcelona’s goal.

Johnny, key to playing in Osasuna, did not live long on the field, leaving him injured in the 23rd minute, leaving his place to Juan Cruz.

The goal is finally

After exactly half an hour, Barcelona finally managed to score in a three-life chance, which Braithwaite ended up in the Osasuna net.

The former Leganés striker has scored 3 goals in his last two games for Barcelona.

Osasuna responded by shaking the net in the 40th minute by Podemir, but the assistant flag announced the offside of the crossbar.

The answer came from Griezmann, who received a rebound from the defense, and received it with a powerful missile shot from the edges of the area that hit Herrera’s net in the 43rd minute.

Griezmann scored in two consecutive games for Barcelona for the first time since joining him from Atlético de Madrid about a year and a half ago.

With the start of the second half, Sergio Busquets, returning from an injury, entered the place of the young Pedri for more security in defense.

Osasuna, for his part, tried to show a brave face, and Robin García hit a surprise ball on 47 ‘, which was saved by Ter Stegen.

The party continues

But Osasuna’s small uprising was aborted with a third Barcelona goal in the 57th minute by Coutinho, who received a decisive pass from Griezmann to an empty goal.

After expanding the result, Coman intervened to rest his players, taking Braithwaite, Dest and Coutinho, and replacing them with Osman Dembélé, Francisco Trinkau and Junior Verbo, who had been hired as right back.

stab

But the only bad news for Barcelona in the match came in the 66th minute, when Clement Longley was injured and in pain, and Carles Alenia replaced him, so De Jong retired to the depth of the defense.

This means that the four Barça defenders registered in the first team (Longleate, Gerard Piqué, Samuel Umtiti and Ronald Araujo) are all injured at the moment.

Barcelona suffered some defensive confusion in the moments that followed, as substitute Roberto Torres hit Ter Stegen’s post in the 68th minute.

Barcelona, ​​meanwhile, continued the attack and scored a fourth goal through substitute Osman Dembili after a pass from Trenkau in the 70th minute, but the video technology eliminated all the celebrations and indicated an offside case. , to annul the goal.

To Diego’s soul

Finally Messi got what he wanted in the 73rd minute and scored Barcelona’s fourth goal with a shot that went through Osasuna’s net.

While everyone was waiting for the way Messi would honor his Maradona counterpart, the Barcelona legend shocked everyone by taking off his jersey and introducing the 1990s Newell’s Old Boys jersey with the number 10.

The secret is that Newell’s Old Boys, where Messi started his career before traveling to Spain to join Barcelona, ​​is the club that Maradona played for at the end of his career after the end of his European trip.

Messi scored his 23rd career goal with Osasuna and honors Maradona accordingly.