Rey Manaj's hat-trick to decide Barça's first friendly (4-0)

Ronald Koeman took out an eleven of circumstances for the first friendly of the pre-season against the Gimnàstic of Tarragona. An alignment with six footballers of the first team and four young footballers of the quarry. A classical alignment in these moments of preparation for a duel in front of a lower rival that did what could. In the first-half, the tarraconenses held in foot thank you, especially, to the big performance of his goalkeeper, Manu García, that was sensacional.

The crash began calmly, something natural being the first meeting of this pre-season. The Barça dominated with the balloon with Riqui Puig and Yusuf Demir, that debuted this miércoñes with the Barcelona picture, like players more stood out. The one of Matadepera was precisely one of the protagonists of the first big occasion for the Catalans. The '12' saw the desmarque of Sergi Roberto, put it to him to perfection and the one of Reus tried to beat to the put of the ones of Tarragona, that saved to his miraculously.

The archer of the Nàstic was soberbio and saved to his team to fit until three clear goals. The visitors were holding well to the Barça, in spite of the clear occasion of Roberto, but in the minute 38 the referee 'loaded' the party expelling to Quintanilla with red direct after a hard fault on Riqui. Manu García had to appear then with two good unemployed to Pjanic and Sin to allow that the tarraconenses arrived empatados to the rest.

In the intermediate, Koeman changed to the whole team not to force to any of the headlines and took out to eleven canteranos to try carry the party. Rey Manaj was one of which jumped to the terrain of game and the '9' of the filial took so alone a chamber of hour in showing why is was the maximum goleador of the B the past course. The Albanian marked an authentic golazo of 'killer' pure in the 60 to decant the marker in favour of the culés.

Manaj, the big star of the second part

The ex of the Albacete received from the right inside the area and after controlling doing gap with the body put it near of the square by the first stick. A finish powerful with little angle that surprised to the guardameta of the Nàstic, that almost neither saw the balloon. A genialidad of manoeuvre and of finish of a forward that to his 24 years seems that it will not be still in the B and that it could go out course to a First same east summer.

The own Manaj had in his head the 2-0 few minutes afterwards, but the archer tarraconense cleared his head butt, that was too centred. The rebound could have finished in goal, but Oriol was attentive and avoided the so much of the Albanian. Luckily, no a lot afterwards Álex Hill left his print in the duel with a lucky finish with his left-handed from out of the area that rebounded in a defence of the Nàstic and coló in the goal.

You grieve some minutes after the second, again Manaj finished to sentence the meeting after marking with the breast a glorious centre of Hiroki Abe. The Japanese put it to the second stick with a subtle pass with the left-handed and the '9' did not fail in mouth of goal. In the 89, the one of Lushnjë completed an afternoon for the memory from the penalty spot transforming a maximum penalty. At the end, 4-0 'made in' The Masia to première a pre-season that will be more than interesting.