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(Barcelona 4-0 Villarreal) After a very noisy summer, Lionel Messi (33) scored again for Barcelona. But it is Ansu Fati, 17, who runs off with the headlines.
In fact, great talent was involved in almost everything Barcelona did in the first half. He scored the first two goals of the match, four minutes apart.
Both of Ansu Fati’s goals came after a brilliant attacking play, and the 17-year-old was not wrong when Jordi Alba and the return of Philippe Coutinho, respectively, made things easy for him.
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GREAT GAME: Ansu Fati was involved in almost everything Barcelona did. Here he applauds after scoring Barcelona’s first goal in the 2020/21 season. Photo: Joan Monfort / AP
Just over a quarter of an hour after scoring the second, he also gave Barcelona a penalty.
This gave Lionel Messi the opportunity to open the scoring account.
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In any case, it was important for new hire Ronald Koeman to get the 33-year-old man going. Messi was responsible for one of the biggest transfer bombs in history when he announced that he would leave the club where he has spent most of his life, and after a few weeks of speculation, fights and comings and goings, he decided to stay.
However, there has not been a good atmosphere among the Catalans, and at the latest on Friday, two days before the first official game of the season, Messi was out of action in the Barça leadership.
When he returned to the grass he did not show his best side, but from the penalty spot he did not miss.
His penalty was neither particularly harsh nor well placed, but Villarreal goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo did not come down fast enough and the score for Messi’s goal was opened.
The same was the story of Luis Suárez early Sunday. Messi’s best friend left Barcelona as the club’s third all-time top scorer, and he stood out immediately when he debuted for La Liga rival Atlético de Madrid:
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Barcelona hosted a Villarreal team that started the season with four out of six possible points, but the “yellow submarine” initially looked more like a sinking ship at Camp Nou.
When the teams went into halftime, it was 4-0. Messi also participated in the fourth goal; He tried to catch Sergio Busquets with a cross, but Villarreal goalkeeper Pau Torres was the first to touch the ball. He controlled the ball in his own net.
Barcelona continued to dominate after the break, and although Messi had several opportunities to increase the lead, there were no more goals.
As the figures below show, although he was not at his best, Messi was important again:
Graphics: www.sofascore.com
Starting the season with four goals and zero behind was very important for Barcelona, for several reasons:
Reigning league champions Real Madrid started the season with a win and a draw, but now Barça is just one point away with a game less played. This was also their first official match since the humiliation in Portugal, when they played completely off the field and lost 2-8 to Bayern Munich.
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Since then there have been changes of coach, noise in the club, both internal and external, and several players who have been regulars in the team, such as Suárez, Ivan Rakitic and Nelson Semedo, have left the club.
Ronald Koeman has struggled this summer, but the start of the La Liga season was at least comfortable.
