Dani Rodríguez guides Barça's victory against Antwerp in the Youth League (2-1)

The FC Barcelona Sub-19 attained his first victory of the season 2023/2024 in his debut in the UEFA Youth League against the Amberes, with a marker of 2-1. The goals for the combined Barcelona were annotated by Alexis Olmedo in the minute 21 and Dani Rodríguez to the 28', whereas Jeff Godelaine discounted for the Belgian team in the 72'.

The clash carried out in the Stadium Johan Cruyff of Barcelona. After a minute of silence, the referee Ishmael Barbara gave start to the actions and from this moment, the Barça began to impose his game, whereas the Belgian did not remain backwards and also looked for to propose an offensive game without showing fear.

The Barça imposed quickly the rhythm of the party

Initially, although the combined culé controlled slightly the game, did not attain to generate real danger in the arch defended by Niels Devalckeneer, by what tried vulnerar the defence of the Amberes with shots of long distance, two of them tried by Dani Rodríguez and Pau Prim respectively, without success. By his part, the Amberes alone had tried to upset the goal of the Catalan entity with a centre to the area until this moment.

The insistence of the combined of Óscar López gave his fruits in the minute 21, when Alexis Olmedo annotated a glorious head butt after a corner executed by Pau Prim, breaking like this the equality in the marker. This envalentonó to the Barça, that had a double opportunity to mark other so many by the same road in the minute 27, but finally did not attain to concretise.

GOAL OF ALEXIS OLMEDO 🇪🇸(2006)!
WHICH BALL OF PAU PRIM 🇪🇸(2006)!#UYL
📽️ @ArsenKveFCBpic.twitter.com/bqemelee2i

— Football Report (@FootballReprt) September 19, 2023

Dani Rodríguez expanded the difference for the Barcelona

Immediately afterwards, the defence of the Amberes went back to be vulnerada, since to the 28' Dani Rodríguez, with a powerful shot with the left-handed after an excellent habilitation of the defender Andrés Cuenca, annotated the second goal deserved for the culés. The Barça continued generating game through the native of Astigarraga, Pau Prim and Noah Darvich, whereas the Belgian group finished the totally manacled first-half.

GOLAZO! Dani Rodríguez! Great pass by Cuenca 2-0 pic.twitter.com/coayhliwjz

— FCB Canteranos (@fcbcanteranos) September 19, 2023

The second half was a faithful reflection of the first time

It began the second half of the party and the combined of Óscar López went out quickly to impose conditions with a powerful shot from far of Noah Darvich, the German that every time did more present in the meeting, doing owner of the central zone of the field. In spite of the command of the Barcelona cast, the occasions of goal no sobraron, although so much Dani Rodríguez like Marc Guiu tired to upset to the defence of the Amberes.

It did not go until the minute 72 that lived another emotion in the party of unexpected way. Although the Belgian square had generated little and seemed that the FC Barcelona went to mark the third goal, Jeff Godelaine marked a target that did to think in a traced back of the Antwerp, taking advantage of a loss of balloon of Pau Prim. In spite of this, the development of the party kept on being the same. In fact, it cancelled a goal to Nil Calderó by offside, after a big played of the extreme of Astigarraga, the one who was appointed the Most Valuable Player of the party when finalising the meeting.

Like this it concluded the party, a meeting that the Barcelona picture could have won by a wide difference, but that at the end carried the victory by the minimum and with some insecurity, since the Amberes had a last opportunity to balloon stopped in the minute 90+4.

Which is the next party of the FC Barcelona in the Youth League?

With this victory, the FC Barcelona Sub-19 plants in the first place of the Group H of the UEFA Youth League, empatado with the Port wine, that also won his party against the Shakthar Donetsk Or19 by 4-1. Precisely, Portuguese and Spaniards will confront in the next day of this tournament, that will contest the 04/10 in the Municipal Stadium Dr. Jorge Sampaio.

Index card of the party:

• FC Barcelona: Yaakobishvili; Alexis Olmedo, Cortés, Cuenca, Navarro; Noah Darvich, Pau Prim, Muñoz; Calderó, Marc Guiu, Dani Rodríguez
• Antwerp: Devalckeneer; Renders, Delaporte, Verstraeten, Tuyupens, Courtens, Horemans, Smits; Godelaine, Doms, Abdelhamid
• Replacements: Arnau Pradas, Xaavi Espart, Dani Ávila, Guillermo Fernández and Juan Hernández (FC Barcelona). Vandeplas, Go Helden, Gueddar, Aertbeliën and Of Wit (Antwerp)
• Field: Johan Cruyff Stadium (560 viewers)
• Referee: Ishmael Barbara
• Goals: 1-0 min 22 Alexis Olmedo, 2-0 min 29 Dani Rodríguez and 2-1 min 73 Jeff Godelaine