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Scored: Luis Rioja (31) – Griezmann (63)
It didn’t take long for the Barça players to regain their spirits after a 1-3 loss to Real Madrid in the El Clásico match when they defeated strong Juventus on their rival’s field with a score of 2-0 in the group stage of the Champions. in the middle of last week.
That day, Barça showed many positive signs. They defended more firmly with good support from a distance from two central midfielders. They also attack more consistently thanks to the brilliance of Captain Lionel Messi in the role of leader of the game. If the Barça forwards knew the opportunity, the score had to be darker.
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| Alavés vs Barça |
Definitely, Alavés is no rival for Barça. By no means, the 8 most recent clashes between the two sides, did the Catalunya team win. More recently, in the second leg of La Liga last season, also at Alavés, Barça won 5-0, in which Messi scored a double.
The performance of Alavés last time is not good either: they only won 2/13 games (they lost 8). Particularly at home, Alavés also triumphed only once after the last 8 reception performances.
Like the game with Juventus, because midfielder Philippe Coutinho is still cured, coach Koeman continues to pull Lionel Messi to assume the role of base that Coutinho leaves with the maximum position in attack still in the hands of Antoine Griezmann although the star French didn’t play well last time.
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| The Barcelona starting list |
The two remaining places in the attack line according to coach Koeman’s 4-2-3-1 preference scheme belong to the prodigy Ansu Fati and the “glass man” Dembélé, who has just returned from a long-term injury but no one dares. How much time can you dedicate to Barça before … suffering a new injury?
Barça entered the game with little joy, so the situation in the first minutes was relatively balanced. The first opportunity appeared in the 12th minute when Lenglet pushed the high-class slot for Ansu Fati to accelerate to receive the ball and then broke his heart to the far corner as he faced the opponent. However, the ball went out.
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| Messi and his teammates had many difficulties before host Alavés was more upset than expected |
In the 17th minute, Alavés responded with a strong counterattack, but Edgar Méndez’s final blow was not difficult enough to defeat goalkeeper Neto. After the first half of the first half, keeping up the “battle” of the onslaught of powerful guests helped host Alves become more confident.
And then all of a sudden it exploded in the 31st minute. Piqué made a simple pass to Neto, but the Brazilian goalkeeper handled it too awkwardly, letting Luis Rioja hit the ball on his foot and kick the empty net with ease.
Having been led in the table, Barça were of course forced to play urgently to soon return the game to the correct trajectory, but when there was no goal, Alavés were extremely upset, much less now that they have a table capital.
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| Luis Rioja opened the scoring for Alavés after a rival’s mistake |
In fact, until the end of the first half, what the Blaugrana created was only a quick shot with the left foot of the superstar Lionel Messi, but the goalkeeper Pacheco knew how to hug the ball.
Immediately after the break, Coach Koemam showed his impatience when he switched to 3 positions on the field. Of course, Barça continues to exert great pressure on Alavés at home.
However, the game was only really reversed in the 62nd minute, when Jota foolishly raised his feet when the ball fought with Piqué and under his shoes hit the midfielder’s chest. The referee quickly issued a second yellow card penalty, which meant that Alavés had only 10 people on the field.
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| Even when he plays more than people, Barça also only scored 1 goal thanks to the work of Griezmann |
Immediately, the Barça specified the advantage of the human resources in a tie. In the 63rd minute, an Alavés player’s effort by Ansu Fati accidentally turned into a comfortable “assist” for Griezmann and the French forward deftly passed the ball through Pacheco’s goalkeeper to lead the game. fight to the starting line.
A few minutes later, if Pacheco did not play well, the Alavés network had to vibrate for the second time after the touch and dangerous shot of Messi from the center made by Roberto on the right wing.
In the 71st minute, the Alavés net had to vibrate, but the referee determined that Trincao fell into an offside position in a position to escape to catch the ball and stretch Griezmann into the net.
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| Barça played very fast from the start of the 2020/21 season |
Without being recognized for the goal, Barça had to keep trying and the ball was about to roll in the Alavés field until the end of the game, but the local team stood firm against all the waves to successfully defend 1 point in hand.
Thus, Barça continues to receive another disappointing result in La Liga 2020/21. Since coming to power, Coach Koeman has been very daring to implement the reform and achieved some encouraging results, but clearly Barca remain a mess, playing very frantically on the field.
TEAM
ALAVES XI (5-4-1): Fernando Pacheco; Ruben Duarte, Florian Lejeune, Victor Laguardia, Ximo Navarro (Aguirregabiria 41 ‘), Edgar Mendez; Luis Rioja (Manu Garcia 72 ‘), Tomas Pina (Adrián Marín 72’), Rodrigo Battaglia, Jota; Deyverson (Joselu 57 ‘).
BARCA XI (4-2-3-1): Net; Sergi Roberto, Gerard Piqué, Clement Lenglet (Pedri 46 ‘), Jordi Alba (Sergio Dest 69’); Sergio Busquets (Pjanic 46 ‘), Frenkie De Jong; Ousmane Dembélé (Trincao 46 ‘), Lionel Messi, Ansu Fati; Antoine Griezmann.
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