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Marc-Andre ter Stegen was the Barça hero in the penalty shoot-out, where Riqui Puig stood his ground. Ousmane Dembélé led from the front in the absence of Messi.
Barcelona secured their place in Sunday’s Spanish Super Cup final, where they will play against Real Madrid or Athletic Bilbao after Ronald Koeman’s team beat Real Sociedad in a penalty shoot-out after the match. finish 1-1 after 120 high octane minutes at the New Stadium in Córdoba Arcángel.
This is how the Barça players did at night.
Ter-Stegen: The German stopped everything there was to stop, including the first penalty in the penalty shootout and the second, which was the first that Mikel Oyarzabal failed to score in his professional career.
Mingueza: Koeman opted for the greatest defensive virtues of the La Masia graduate over Sergiño Dest. The right-back held firm but struggled a bit as Barrenetxea’s fresh legs came off the bench.
Araujo: The central defender had the toughest task of the night with Isak and Oyarzabal to deal with. Little by little he contained the Swede and pushed Oyarzabal away from the areas where he was doing the most damage.
Lenglet: Better on deck than in the air, where he made some mistakes with La Real centers.
Jordi Alba: Portu had the best of the first duels between the two, but Alba’s experience was counting little by little. He did not offer much in attack in the absence of his usual partner in Messi.
Busquets: The job is still yours. A vintage performance.
From Jong: De Jong begins to play as the Barça midfielder for whom he paid a fortune. Maybe Wednesday too much. He scored the first goal with a good header but conceded the penalty to tie La Real at the other end. Hit the post during the shootout.
Pedri: A little out of tune with no Messi to link with, Barcelona enjoyed their best moments when they stepped back to look for the ball between the lines.
Dembélé: Barça’s best field player. Electric runs that took out the entire defense, the Frenchman crashed to the ground, coming back after a cramp attack to score on the penalty shoot-out.
Griezmann: Griezmann is not a number nine nor does he possess that undetectable element that Messi has recently relied on. He is not suffering as much in front of goal this season, but he is still not the decisive player that he was. His penalty missed by a country mile. However, his assist for De Jong was excellent.
Braithwaite: The Dane cannot be blamed in terms of effort and courage, but he does not appear to be the answer to Koeman’s need for a “natural forward”. His incisive ball for Griezmann started the play for the goal of Barcelona.
Substitutes
Trincão: He got more than he added by simply pushing Dembélé from the right wing to the left.
Riqui Puig: Koeman gave him an important few minutes and he responded perfectly while maintaining the courage to bury the decisive penalty.
Pjanic: With Pjanic and Puig on the pitch, Barça had more ball but lost control a bit in midfield.
Junior: Koeman displaced him to the right, but fortunately for Barça La Real he was already plowing the other side of the field with Adnan Januzaj.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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