TO QUARTER! Barça shows character and comes back against Galatasaray (1-2)

Published:17/03/2022 - 20:40h

Updated:20/03/2022 - 19:59h

FC Barcelona has suffered more than necessary, but is in the quarterfinals of the Europa League. Xavi's men had to come back and show their character to survive the 'hell' in Istanbul

The FC Barcelona is in quarter-finals of the Europe League and has had to suffer to achieve it. The ones of Xavi Hernández were of less to more, although they controlled the party of beginning to end and Ter Stegen suffered few times. A genialidad of Pedri, however, in addition to a goal of '9' pure of Aubameyang decanted the marker in favour of the culés in a more contested afternoon and complicated of the expected.

To the Barça cost him, more than the account, find him the script and plant in the hell of Istanbul, that by something calls him like this... The Barcelona went out very imprecise and without sufficient 'creativity' to surpass the zone of three chambers, with a Galatasaray that bet by the same recipe that in the Camp Nou: shut backwards and look for go out to the against to win in speed to the culés.

Unlike what posed Xavi in paper, his change between Araújo and Eric did not go out very well and the Catalan, that contributes a lot in the exit of balloon but remains 'without gas' in the one to one, remained portrayed very soon and could be the victim of a Gomis that received a balloon in long,put body to Eric, recortó and commanded a shot point-blank that cleared Jordi Alba 'in extremis' to save to his.

The culés were not comfortable and Xavi had to correct much more of what had wanted, because the 'Galata' was very very planted and his, by the contrary, very restless and without clarity. Frenkie Of Jong had a very clear opportunity, after Busquets sent him a pass to the gap that crossed too much in the hand manually against Iñaki Crag.

The Barça did not find hollow and andl conjoint Turkish took advantage of the uncertainty to do cost the hell of his stadium. Before the half hour, after a corner to the second stick, appeared Marcao for cabecear in front of the innocent mark of Ferran Torres and the distraction of the rest of defenders. The central nailed the balloon adjusted to the right stick of the goal of Ter Stegen. For fortune of the culés, the reaction arrived very soon (and with a golazo) after a jugadón of the culés that started Ferran from the frontal. It yielded for Pedri and this 'detained' the time: it controlled in balloon, dribló to the defenders and defined with a pass to the network in which it could not do at all Iñaki.

Of turn to the reality

The Barça, for fortune, began the second part with the engines lit and with many win to sentence the so prompt meeting as it was possible. And like this it happened. The ones of Xavi began to presionar more and with greater efficiency, by what the tiebreaker arrived much prompter of the expected after a very good played of the culés. Busquets tested to Iñaki with a shot from the frontal, but achieved to clear it. The refuse hunted it Pedri and went back to taponar, but to the third was the defeated: the leather 'landed' in the head of Frenkie of Jong and served him an assistance of luxury to Aubameyang so that it pushed the spherical.

The goal allowed to the Barça be calmer and find more spaces, but did not achieve 'kill' the clash and almost carry a surprise after a zurdazo of Go Aanholt from out of the area of Ter Stegen that left almost brushing the crossbar. The Galatasaray, that was forced to go out of his initial plan and dare, arrived more times to the area culé: first it cut Eric a pass to the dangerous space of Mohamed and afterwards asked a penal after a contact of Jordi Alba on Cicaldau in the area, but Orsato said that there was not at all.

In research of the sentence

Ferran could put the 1-3 to the 70': Busquets gave a big pass to the of Foios and Marcao appeared to go to the floor and clear the labeling, although the action was invalidated by offside. Dembélé Was the following in testing with a shot that bumped in the rival barrier. By 'trust', could arrive the tie, after a balloon to the space to Aktartoglu that, although had everything to finish, finish looking for a pass to the second stick that finished being very long.

Technical index card of the party: Galatasaray 1-2 FC Barcelona

Galatasaray: Iñaki Crag, Boey, Nelsson, Marcao, Go Aanholt, Kutlu, Antalyali, Babel (min. 74, Dervisoglu), Cicaldau (min. 74, Morutan), Aktürkoglu and Gomis (min. 62, Mohamed).
FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Dest (min. 56, Araújo), Hammered (min. 82, Lenglet), Eric, Alba; Busquets, Of Jong (min. 67, Gavi), Pedri; Adama (min. 45, Dembélé), Aubameyang (min. 82, Memphis) and Ferran.
Referee: Daniele Orsato
Incidences: corresponding Party the turn of the eighth of final of the Europe League 2021-2022.
Goals of the party: 1-0, Marcao (min. 28); 1-1, Pedri (min. 37); 1-2 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang;