Goal of Busquets: the VAR validated it in spite of the protests

The first-half of the Betis-Barça was an authentic Russian mountain of emotions, but the FC Barcelona achieved to leave to the rest costs down. The culés, by means of Sergio Busquets, annotated the goal of the tie (2-2) in the last seconds of the time added, leaving like this with full confidence to the rest and with the will to trace back the marker in the seconds 45 minutes.

The party had been a correcalles until then, with both teams approaching to the areas every time that had the balloon in possession, and without that the men of the centre of the field attained to impose in the control of the game. Channels, Of Jong and Fekir had marked during the first half hour, but before the rest still there was time so that the one of Badía went back to change the returns.

Busquets controlled a balloon inside the area with the breast, in the minute 47, after receiving an inner pass of Messi. Falling, the midfield player culé finished to surpass to Joel Oaks and put the just tie before the referee signalled the end of the first part. The players of the Betis and his trainer, Rubi, surrounded to the referee Sánchez Martínez before it put course to the changing rooms.

And it is that they protested a supposed push of Lenglet to a defender of the Betis just before Busquets finished at the end of the meshes. The repetition left clear that there was contact, but from here everything runs to charge of the interpretation of the referee. Sánchez Martínez thought that the contact did not go sufficiently strong as to demolish to the local player, and by this reason did not signal the lacking theorist.

The goal of Busquets gave hopes to the Barça

Like this the things, the FC Barcelona attained to leave to the rest with 2-2 in the marker, a lower evil taking into account that well it could have gone losing. The tie in the electronic, besides, gave hopes to Quique Setién and to his players to confirm the traced back in the second time, already with less pulsaciones and some tactical changes.

The FC Barcelona approached with a lot of danger during the first minutes of the second time, with Leo Messi that it was protagonist with two very dangerous shots that the goalkeeper, Joel Oaks, diverted to corner. The goal denied him to the Barça, but even so the culés followed trying it to the end of the ninety minutes. Good version of the Barça in the second half... Better that inthe first .