BARÇA DESERVED MORE GOALS
Messi sentences Levante and brings Barça closer to the Champions (1-0)
Published:13/12/2020 - 22:52h
Updated:14/12/2020 - 00:21h
FC Barcelona suffered to beat Levante and had to wait for the last quarter of an hour to unbalance the game. Leo Messi decided the clash with a great goal that brings Barça closer to European positions
The Raise did not go out to the Camp Nou to stroll and, in spite of his delicate situation in the table, showed without complexes from the minute 1. Precisely by this, the granotas could advance before arriving to the first chamber of hour after a big played by right that finished saving Marc-André ter Stegen. The German stopped doing very big the one against one of Jorge of Fruits that was not hit in the finish.
The party was beautiful, with the visitors trying touch whenever they could, and the FC Barcelona, that went out with a more seemed training to the 4-3-3, trying arrive with clarity. But to the Catalans, that warned with a good shot of Martin Braithwaite, cost them find gaps. The first big opportunity arrived after a free direct of Leo Messi that Antoine Griezmann cabeceó for the stop of Aitor Fernández, that finished being the hero of the Valencians. In the rebound, Clément Lenglet commanded it strangely above the crossbar when had everything to his favour.
The levantinistas went back to have another dangerous arrival after a big pass of Roger Martí to Dani Gómez. The ex canterano of the Real Madrid, encimado by Lenglet, did not hit in the finish and shot very diverted. After this dangerous approach of the visitors, the Barça put the batteries and finish the first part with opportunities and with the feeling that habñía deserved something more than the granotas.
Griezmann Had the clearest before the rest, but his powerful zurdazo found again with a big Aitor. The goalkeeper of the Raise was definitely the best of his team and went back to save to his with a very good pulled and a big hand to avoid the so much of the Barcelona. The Barcelona, clearly of less to more, did not take advantage of his arrivals and did not attain desequilibrar the marker in the first 45 minutes.
Ronald Koeman changed the drawing of the team, throwing to Coutinho more to the left and to Griezmann like clear mediapunta. This variation seated him well to praises blaugrana in the first minutes of the second time, that arrived with danger in a pair of actions of Messi. The '10' found with Malsa in a shot from inside the first area, and looked for luck with a far shot that did not have the sufficient comba to take door.
Messi decided after an alluvium of occasions of the Barça
The Dutch technician wanted to follow retouching his eleven in search of the victory, and decided to substitute to Busquets by Pedri, planting to Frenkie of Jong like only mediocentro. Shortly after the change, the Barcelona protested a penalti by hand of Vezo, that already in the floor, wanting to clear with the head, touched the balloon with the arm. In the VAR understood that it was totally involuntary and not even called to the referee so that it saw the played in the screen.
The culés dominated, commanded and arrived, but did not find the puntería necessary as to drill put it levantinista. Messi tried it again in the 71 with an unexpected shot from the first stick that went back to stop Aitor. In the kickoff of back corner, Braithwaite finished entirely alone and went back to forgive of way inexplicable. The Raise went back to save and followed rowing to try leave of the Camp Nou with at least 1 point.
But they say that so much it goes the cántaro to the source that at the end breaks , and a loss of Malsa, flawless until this moment, propició at last the so much Barcelona. Frenkie Of Jong saw the desmarque of Messi after recovering and the Argentinian did not fail and crossed the ball with a big shot that went in after touching in the stick. The rosarino and the Barça at last found prize and encarrilaron a crash that was putting very complicated.
The so much of the 'crack' of Rosario saved to the Barcelona in a meeting that every time was more difficult and that it could have meant another 'prick' more. Luckily, the culés knew to hold after the 1-0 and held the result in spite of the push final of the Raise. The granotas tried it to the end and gave a fright in the discount, but Ter Stegen showed very safe, cut across the spherical and the ones of Koeman added this important triumph.
Technical index card of the party: FC Barcelona 1-0 Raise Unit
- FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Dest, Lenglet, Araújo, Jordi Alba; Busquets (Pedri, min 58), Of Jong; Coutinho (Trincao, min 71), Messi, Griezmann (Umtiti, min 89) and Braithwaite.
- Raise UD: Aitor; Coke (Miramón, min 68), Postigo, Vezo, Clerc; Vukcevic (Radoja, min 68), Malsa, Melero, Of Fruits; Dani Gómez and Roger (Moral, min 68).
- Referee: Of Boroughs Bengoetxea.
- Incidences: corresponding Party to the day 13 of LaLiga Santander 2020-21.
- Goals of the party: 1-0, Leo Messi (min. 76).