Barcelona – Athl. Bilbao 2-3 (par.): Worthy of the Lions Super Cup, historic red for Messi! (vids) | the league



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Super Athletic de Bilbao, a great conquest of the Spanish Super Cup for third time in the history of the Lions, which they wanted it more and they showed it in the 120 minutes of the final with a phobic rival Barcelona who went ahead twice, but no … bit and rightly saw his team Martellino Garthia Toral to make your own first mug of the season with exciting victory – thriller (3-2).

Balanced the first 45 minutes, with the Basques, however, pressing better in the field and losing the first good opportunity, in their shot Low Kappa from the height of the large area, that the Mark – Andre Ter Stegen drove to a corner.

The blaugrana, with Lionel messi to start off as false – nine, they started rolling when the Argentine turned, towards the center, to play. And, of an excellent pass from Messi and his combination with him Jordi Alba, the ball reached Antoine Griezmann, for the French to open the scoring with a place from the top of the penalty (40 ‘).

The joy of Barça, however, lasted only a few seconds, after Athletic responded immediately, with Iniaki Williams to cross it too Oscar de Marcos, catching the sleeping defense, to equalize with a closed position (42 ‘).

As in the first half, so in the second Athletic it was better in the field and in fact managed to lead the score, with his head Raul garcia (57 ‘), whose goal canceled via VAR for marginal offside.

Barça was picking up pace, without … going crazy with their performance, managing to take the lead again, again with Griezmann, after a combination of Usman Dembélé – Alba and crosses of the latter (76 ‘).

Athletic did not give up, they pursued the draw and the extension until the end and got at 90 ‘, when after an unnecessary absence Clement langley, the boss Ίκερ Μουνιαΐν cross in the zone I Asier VigialibreWith good effort, he gave the kiss of life to the Basque combatants.

In the extra half hour, in which he left with his sword, Athletic went ahead early with an amazing shot by Iniaki Williams, in which the Ter Stegen He could do absolutely nothing (93 ‘).

The Catalans, at their entrance Ricky puts, tried to reach a draw, but Athletic was the one that approached with the greatest risk, reaching 4-2 in the efforts of Unai nunieth and Mikel Vesga.

As the minutes passed, the despair captured the blaugrana, both due to their inability to reach a draw and because of the referee’s whistles Jesus Cerro Mantano, which is true that it left Athletic’s game quite dynamic (even hard).

At the end Messi hit Vialibre and the referee, via VAR, ejected correctly the Argentine, who saw the red card for the first time in his career at a collective level, then with the national Argentina has been deleted twice

The final found Athletic celebrating its second title in the last 37 years (it was preceded by the 2015 Super Cup, also with the same rival) and Barça realizing that with this defense, whatever it does forward, it is not going anywhere part this year …

Barcelona (Ronald Koeman): Ter Stegen – Dest (46 ‘Mingetha), Araoύjo, Langley (106’ Trincao), Jordi Alba, Pedri (88 ‘Pjanic), Busquets (97’ Ricky Putz), De Jong – Dembele (88 ‘Breixwright),.

Athletic de Bilbao (Martellino García Toral): Unai Simon – Capa (81 ‘Berenger), Gerai Alvarez, Inigo Martinez (95’ Unai Nunez), Balenciaga (83 ‘Lekue) – De Marcos, Ventedor (81’ Mikel Vesga), Danny García (83) Vigialibre), Iniaki Williams (106 ‘Mortigio).

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