Barça came out victorious from Cádiz thanks to their wardrobe. The substitutes left from the beginning so that the fixed ones could finish off the task
Xavi Hernández played it at the colista’s house leaving with a team more typical of the last season that of the present. Seeing Piqué, De Jong or Memphis among the starters made some culés turn their guts over bad memories of the past such as relegation and subsequent elimination from the Europa League.
After a somewhat discreet first half with just six approaches to the rival goal -the worst figure this year-, the Catalans reacted with great football in the second half starting with a Frenkie de Jong who scored for the first time since February this year when he scored against Napoli. Interestingly, the Dutch midfielder’s last 11 goals have been away from the Camp Nou, where he is not very well received due to his refusal to lower his salary.
Then things got serious with the entrance from the bench of a Lewandowski who did not miss his date with the goal. The Polish striker has scored 8 goals in his first 6 official matches with the culé shirt (five in the League and three in the Champions League). This data no Barça player had achieved it since the Hungarian Sándor Kocsis in the 1958-59 season.
Focusing solely on the league, Robert Lewandowski has accomplished 6 goals in 5 official matches becoming the fastest player to reach that figure in the competition in the 21st century. André Silva scored 6 goals in his first 6 games for Sevilla in 2018.
Bad look for Cádiz
The game was seen suspended for health reasons of two members of the stands. The crash was interrupted for 15 minutes and there were no deaths. It is the first time that a match has been stopped since the 2011/12 season when the throwing of objects by the stands forced Granada-Mallorca to be suspended.
Cádiz has it very raw to save the category seeing the sensations and the numbers. add up Zero goals after five days, although of the four teams that experienced a situation, three were saved. Only Xerez experienced a similar situation at the start, falling to the Second Division in the 2009/10 season.
Barcelona sleeps as leader with 13 points out of 15 possible. They will wait to see what Real Madrid can do at home against Mallorca, although everything indicates that we will have a duel in style to win the League. The champion does not fall below 92 points this season.