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Ronald Koeman’s team faced a thorny opponent.
January 31, 2021 11:56 pm
In the match of the 21st round of the Spanish LaLiga, Catalan Barcelona met Athletic Bilbao at home.
Ronald Koeman’s home team started very aggressively and was able to make a break, winning with a great score. However, in the first half, it was only possible to register once at the doors of the Basque club. Leo Messi opened the scoring with a magnificent free-kick. By the way, this goal he became the 650th of the Argentine star with the Barcelona shirt in all tournaments.
Athletic recovered at the beginning of the second half of the game, and did so with some luck. Raoul Garcia pHe popped down the right wing and fired at the far post, where Alba, in the fight against De Marcos, accurately finished off the ball in the lower corner of his own goal. The Barça players demanded to annul the goal. Apparently, De Marcos violated the rules against Alba, but the referee of the Laos game saw nothing seditious in the performance of the Athletic side.
The denouement occurred 15 minutes before the end of the meeting. Mingesa pburst along the flank and after a pass from Dembélé, he shot the touch at the far post, and there a lone Griezmann nailed the ball into the net.
Barcelona takes revenge on Athletic for the defeat in the Spanish Super Cup (2: 3) and reaches the second position of the championship, beating Real Madrid in additional indicators. In the next tour, the culés will go to visit Betis.
Athletic remained in the eleventh line of the championship. On the next day, Marcelino’s men will play a home game with Valencia.
Barcelona – Athletic 2: 1
Goals: Messi, 20, Griezmann, 74 – Alba, 49 (own goal).
Barcelona: Ter Stegen – Mingesa, Araujo, Umtiti, Alba – Pyanich (Roberto, 67), de Jong, Pedri – Dembele (Braithwaite, 87), Messi, Griezmann (Lengle, 84).
Athletic: Simon – Capa (Lecue, 84), Álvarez, Martínez, Bersch – De Marcos (Berenger, 67), García, Vencedor (Vesga, 66), Muniain – García, Williams (Villalibre, 84).
Warnings: de Jong, 47 – Raúl García, 33, Alvarez, 40, Capa, 78.
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