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Mercato Day offers you a summary of the match between Barcelona and Levante in today’s matches, Sunday 12-13-2020, in the XIII day of the Spanish League, which ended with a difficult victory for the Blaugrana with an unanswered goal from Lionel Messi in the second half with a shot from the left wing, to save his team from a new negative result In the first season of the most difficult in the history of the team under the leadership of the Dutch Ronald Koeman.
And Messi became a single goal away to equal the number of Brazilian brown jewel Pelé as the highest-scoring player in a club, as the Argentine star scored 642 goals for Barcelona in 746 games in various competitions, while Pelé He scored 643 goals for Santos, the Brazilian, over the course of 18 years between 1956 and 1974.
This match was broadcast on BN Sports 1 and 3, with the voice of the Egyptian commentator “Ahmed Al-Tayeb”, as it was broadcast on LaLiga TV Bar as part of today’s matches on Iega.
The Barcelona-Levante match was held at the Camp Nou stadium, under the direction of the Spanish referee Ricardo de Bergos Pingottesia, and started at exactly 20:00 GMT, 22:00 Egypt time, 23:00 KSA.
The quartet “Othmane Dembélé, Gerard Piqué, Ansu Fati and Sergi Roberto” remained absent from the Barça list due to injury.
Barcelona 1-0 I raised
Camp Nou (Catalonia – Spain)
La Liga (Round 13)
Timed out
Barcelona Squad: Ter Stegen – Jordi Alba – Linglet – Araujo – Dest – Frenkie de Jong – Sergio Busquets – Philippe Coutinho – Antoine Griezmann – Lionel Messi – Braithwaite
Assortment Levante: Fernandez Aparis – Bustigo – Cookie – Viso – Klairs – De Frutos – Voksevich – Malsa – Millero – Roger – Gomez Alcon.
the match summary
Argentine magician Lionel Messi led Barcelona to escape Levante’s ambush, after he scored the Catalan side’s only goal in their difficult 1-0 victory.
Barcelona raised their account to 17 points, to achieve their fifth victory in the League this season in exchange for two draws and four defeats, to advance to eighth place in the ranking table, after being in tenth position, knowing that they are still in There are two games postponed, however, the balance of Levante stagnated at 11 points in 18th place (third from below).
Messi assumed the role of champion in the match, after he scored Barcelona’s only goal in the 76th minute, to restore his team’s balance, after losing in their last two matches in all championships to Cádiz in the Spanish League. and Juventus in the European Champions League.
The Barça-Levante match began with a fierce attack from Barcelona. Philippe Coutinho missed an opportunity to score in the opening seconds of the game when he received a cross pass from the right wing, to shoot directly from inside the area, but the ball passed by the right post.
With the passage of time, Levante began to enter the atmosphere of the match, and the visiting team missed a sure opportunity to score in the 12th minute, through Jorge de Frutus, who received a deep pass, who was left alone in the goal, but he shot from inside the area, terrible, to save the German Marc-Andre Ter Stegen.
Barcelona responded with an organized attack that saw more than a short and quick pass in the 16th minute, finally reaching Martin Braithwaite, who fired from inside the area, but Aitor Fernández, Levante’s goalkeeper, brilliantly delivered the ball to a corner that was not taken advantage of.
Only two minutes passed, until Daniel Gómez hit the Levante player from inside the area, but the ball went over the crossbar, and Barcelona responded with a quick attack in the 19th minute that ended with a shot from Frenkie de Jong that He was firmly caught by Fernández.
Griezmann was about to open the scoring for Barcelona in the 21st minute, when he followed with a free kick from Messi to the front, to pay the French star directly from inside the area, but Fernández arrived on time.
Levante put Barcelona in trouble again, and Koki fired from the edges of the area in the 24th minute to pass the ball over the crossbar, while Messi missed an opportunity for Barcelona in the 26th minute, when he received a cross from the left wing through Griezmann, to finish off with a header, the ball passed by. The correct post.
For his part, Daniel Gómez Alkun fired a projectile from outside the area in the 28th minute, and went to the center of the goal, and the ball reached the arms of Ter Stegen.
The pace of the match slowed down relatively, as the two teams exchanged possession of the ball, before Barcelona got a direct free kick from the region’s borders in the 36th minute from Messi, which hit the human wall to go for a corner , which almost resulted in a goal for Barcelona.
Clement Lenglet continued the corner kick, to hit the ball with his head, but the defense pushed it in the opposite direction, finally reaching Jordi Alba, who shot directly from outside the area, but the Levante goalkeeper took it to a corner that did not yielded nothing.
Barcelona tightened their attacks, as Messi sent a cross from the left wing in the 40th minute to Griezmann, who shot straight from inside the area, but Fernández deftly saved the ball, before the defense sent him away from the danger area. .
Barcelona got a direct free kick in the 43rd minute from Messi, who placed the ball in Fernández’s hand, to close the first half with a 0-0 draw.
The second part began with an attack from Barcelona, where Messi and Griezmann were right in the first seconds, but without danger on the goal of Levante.
Barcelona picked up the pace, cornered the Levante players in the center of their stadium and Messi fired from outside the area in the 53rd minute, but the ball missed.
Griezmann fired from long range in the 61st minute, and went over the crossbar, before Messi wasted another chance in the 63rd minute, when he received a cross pass from Alba, to shoot directly from inside the area, and went to the hand of the guest goalkeeper.
Barcelona got a direct free kick in the 65th minute from Messi, who placed the ball in the middle of the goal, so that Fernández caught it with ease, before the Catalan team made another shot in the 67th minute, which did not produced nothing new.
Fernández continued his brilliance after blocking a shot from inside Messi’s box in the 71st minute, clearing the ball to a corner, followed by Braithwaite with a header that went far from the left post.
Barcelona translated their control over the match, scoring a goal from Messi for the host team in the 76th minute, after receiving a pass from De Jong, to take off the ball and hit from inside the area with his left foot, to hit on the left stick and hug the net.
The Argentine magician almost added another goal for Barcelona in the 81st minute, when he exchanged the ball with Braithwaite, to find Messi himself alone in the goal, but Fernández continued his brilliance after blocking the shot from the Barça captain.
Levante intensified their attacks in search of snatching the tie during the remaining minutes of the game, and demanded a penalty from their players, after the ball touched the hand of Samuel Umtiti, Barça defender inside the penalty area of his team, but the technique (Var) indicated the continuation of the game.
Ter Stegen kept all three points for Barcelona in the match, after a brilliant response from a superb shot from outside the Son Hidalgo area, after which the referee blew the final whistle announcing Barcelona’s 1-0 victory over The uprising.
