Riqui Puig premièred as a scorer with the Barça... With the head!

The FC Barcelona needed a second goal to sentence the meeting in Elche, and did not find it until the injury time. It was then when Riqui Puig, that there was ingresado in the terrain of game to contest the last four minutes of the crash, finished of head a big centre of Frenkie of Jong from the left side. First goal of Riqui with the first team... And immense happiness for the canterano.

1,69 it measures Riqui Puig, and this same sufficed him to surprise to the local defence arriving from second line to push the spherical at the end of the meshes. So only it has contested 25 minutes saliendo like revulsivo in LaLiga this season 2020-21, and already has taken advantage of them to transform his first target of the course in the domestic championship.

Although it follows accumulating poquísimos minutes for a player of his quality, Riqui Puig every time goes having more leadership to the orders of Ronald Koeman. The one of Matadepera has participated already in three parties of Champions League, other two of LaLiga Santander, the two of the Supercopa of Spain and one of the Glass of Rey, winning in importance in 2021.

It has helped him slightly the course in quality of yielded of Carles Aleñá, that deletes a name of the competition to do with minutes in the medullary. Busquets, Of Jong and Pjanic follow being by in front his, so for now Riqui Puig follows conforming with the leftovers. This yes, if it takes advantage of the opportunities as it did this Sunday, every time will have more options to convince to the trainer.

Riqui Puig, every time with more leadership

Before marking in the Martínez Valero this Sunday, his last goal dated of 6 October 2019 when it marked him to Hercules with the Barça B. The party, however, finish in defeat by 4-1. This same season 2019-2020, marked another goal to the Prat, split in which it also delivered an assistance.

Now that it already is confirmed to the one hundred by one hundred like member of the first team, the goal transformed in front of the Elche will give him confidence, sure, to leave the skin when Ronald Koeman go back to give him the opportunity. It can that his following participation arrive this same Wednesday, in front of the Ray Vallecano in the eighth of final of the Glass of the King 2020-21.