He Ronald Koeman’s Barça already cheers. Last night Barça went to beat Balaídos (0-3), where they had not won for six seasons, thanks to the gols of Ansu Fati, Olaza, in own door, and Sergi Roberto. Neither the expulsion of Clement Lenglet three minutes before half time, nor the storm of rain and wind that accompanied the previous one and the 90 minutes of party, were obstacle for a more plugged and ambitious Barcelona.
Ronald Koeman’s team is well fattened despite taking less than a month to prepare. Six of six points, seven goals for and none against in two days. Last night, in the face of a sticky and uncomfortable Celta on the wings, Barça knew how to live up to and closed any possibility of a reply in a Galician team that continues to depend too much on its captain Iago Aspas.
In the first, after several interceptions by Emre Mor, with both teams competing, Barça beat Ansu Fati with a goal in the 11th minute in a play that started Coutinho. The young Catalan striker, 30 days old, put the outside of his foot and beat Villar masterfully. The Celta grew and circled the goal of Neto, without luck. Shortly before the break, Lenglet was sent off for a double yellow card. The second had no excuse after hitting his arm in the face with Denis Suarez. Koeman took out Griezmann and put Araujo, who was making his debut, to reassemble his scheme.
In the second act, when Celta had to continue to take the lead against an inferior rival, Barça pressed the accelerator to the bottom thanks to a genius from their captain. Messi faced two defenses, exhausted the area and when he took a cross with poison appeared Olaza to make the o-2 in own goal. Celta did not lower their arms, they hit the crossbar once, but who ended up scoring again was Barça in the last play of the match, the work of Sergi Roberto.
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