Barça plays at La Cerámica sin Balde, replaced by Mark Alonso
Top Xavi continues betting on lamina yamal and Gavi is the owner
FC Barcelona needs to win at La Cerámica and for that Xavi continues betting on Lamine Yamal in attack. The youth squad player is a starter against Villarreal along with Lewandowski in a game with a similar style of play and in which Barça is suffering in the first few minutes.
Villarreal took the lead after five minutes through Sorloth, but the goal was disallowed for offside, as the striker was ahead by a few centimetres. And one play later, Baena had another great opportunity to have opened the scoring in favor of Villarreal. First five minutes of local superiority.
Xavi’s side, who has come out with four midfielders, he is not getting possession of the ball and the yellow submarine is moving the ball with some ease and dangerously reaching Ter Stegen’s area, who saved Sorloth’s goal after 10 minutes of play.
0-1, min.13: goal by Gavi
But in the first approach with danger from Barça, Gavi’s goal. Laminate He picked up the rebound after a corner and crossed to the far post, where Gavi, unopposed, headed and spiked the ball from Jorgensen’s changed hand to, now, open the scoring at La Cerámica.
0-2, min.14: goal by Frenkie de Jong
Two arrivals, two goals. The Dutch midfielder seizes the ball on the penalty spot after a poor clearance by Pedraza when he tried to take the ball from Lewandowski and De Jong does not fail in the one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
1-2, min.26: goal by Juan Foyth
Villarreal closed the gap through Foyth, who finished off with a header after a corner. A save from Ter Stegen to Pedraza had sent the ball out over the bottom line…
2-2, min.40: goal by Alexander Sorloth
A genius from Gerard Moreno gave Villarreal the equalizing goal. The striker passed it to sortlothwhich changed orientation to Alfonso Pedraza. The groguet winger saw the opportunity to return it to Sorlothwhich was located in the small area of Ter Stegen and it was enough for him to push the ball to put the second on the scoreboard.
3-2, min.50: goal by Alex Baena
Pedraza He caught the ball in the middle of the field and controlled it until he reached the Barça area, where he waited for Baena. The midfielder didn’t think twice and fired from the edge of Barça’s danger zone to send the ball straight into the back of the net