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Scored: Philippe Coutinho (10) – Luuk De Jong (8)
Under the leadership of new coach Ronald Koeman, the Barça machine is running smoothly. After two rounds in La Liga 2020/21, the Catalunya team won, scored 7 goals and did not concede any time. The image of chills from last season has completely disappeared and Barça shows a strong candidate for the league championship this season.
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| Barça vs Sevilla |
Coach Koeman’s team is really hot now. Specifically, they played very well with the new quartet that Lionel Messi formed with the highest kick in the role of “virtual number 9”, Philippe Coutinho started the defense, and Ansu Fati and Antoine Griezmann were on the left and right.
Apparently, since coach Koeman let Barça switch to a new 4-2-3-1 strategy (instead of 4-3-3 like many seasons ago), the Blaugrana game has become more balanced, the lines stickier competition.
On the other side of the battle line, Sevilla also won the first 2 rounds, but both victories were not very convincing. It’s easy to see that the Europa League champion has yet to overcome the deadly weakness of the defense: conceding 6/7 recent matches.
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| Barça starting list |
This game, Barça had the only change in the starting list compared to the previous one (3-0 victory over Celta) when Araujo replaced Lenglet (suspended) in the center position. On the Sevilla side, Ivan Rakitic soon rejoined his former club after being ruthlessly eliminated by Koeman due to the end of use value.
The showdown at the Camp Nou was exciting right after the opening whistle. Only in minute 8 did the first goal appear and suddenly it belonged to the visitors. Suso passed Fati to cross the ball, midfielder Kounde was unable to finish off, but Luuk De Jong quickly kicked the ball, knocking Neto down.
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| Luuk de Jong opened the scoring for Sevilla |
However, the advantage of leading the visitors only existed for about 2 minutes. Lionel Messi threw an artistic ball into Sevilla’s 16m50 area. Navas tried to break the ball but accidentally turned into an assist to help Coutinho break the home team’s net.
Coutinho is slowly finding a place at Barça after Koeman took office, he is no longer “useless” and was loaned to Bayern Munich last season. At 17 minutes, realizing that the rival goalkeeper was a bit high, Jordi Alba decided to quickly launch a free kick from a distance of almost 40 meters and Bono still touched the ball to rescue the goal.
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| Coutinho drew 1-1 |
The two teams played for fierce retaliation, but with home-court advantage and stronger force, Barca slightly outpaced the number of dangerous opportunities created. Only Griezmann to Ansu Fati and Lionel Messi did not take advantage of the success.
Going into the second half, the advantage continues to be in favor of Barça, but everyone continues to pressure and create opportunities.
In the 58th minute, Diego Carlos nearly hit his own net in an attempt to avoid a bad cross from Sergi Roberto’s right wing. In the minute 64, the same thing happened with the Barcelona goal. The ball opened to the right wing for En-Nesyri and the newcomer to this field stretched to … Araujo (Barça midfielder) raised his foot to hit the post in the hearts of his teammates.
The game took place in the final minutes and neither team solved the second scoring problem, the most prominent being the situation in which Frenkie De Jong shot quickly after a cross from the right wing and the ball went to the post.
In the end, Barça had to split points with Sevilla, thus ending the winning streak.
TEAM
Barcelona (4-2-3-1): Net; Sergi Roberto, Gerard Piqué, Ronaald Araujo, Jordi Alba (Sergio Dest 76 ‘); Sergio Busquets, Frenkie de Jong; Antoine Griezmann (Trincao 61 ‘), Philippe Coutinho (Pjanic 75’), Ansu Fati (Pedri 61 ‘); Lionel Messi.
Seville (4-3-3): Yassine Bounou; Jesus Navas, Jules Kounde, Diego Carlos, Marcos Acuna; Ivan Rakitic (Gudelj 78 ‘), Fernando, Joan Jordan; Lucas Ocampos (En-Nesyri 61 ‘), Luuk de Jong, Suso (Munir 61’).
Cong Minh
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