Barcelona achieved their third consecutive victory in LaLiga Santander to get closer to the top of the table by winning this Saturday at the Nuevo Los Cármenes Stadium by 0-4 against Granada, which adds its second defeat in a row.
The azulgranas sentenced the crash in the first half with an early goal from the French Antoine Griezmann and a brace from Argentine Leo Messi, while they signed the 0-4 with another goal from Griezmann against Granada who played the final quarter hour with ten when Jesús Vallejo was sent off with a direct red in minute 78.
The Barcelona coach, the Dutch Ronald Koeman, opted for the same eleven on Wednesday in the victory against Athletic Club (2-3) but with a new pair of centrals with Óscar Mingueza acting instead of the French Clement Lenglet, absent due to suspension , and the Frenchman Samuel Umtiti at the site of the Uruguayan Ronald Araujo, who had discomfort during the warm-up.
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Diego Martínez could not count at the end in Granada due to injury with the French medium Maxime Gonalons and left Luis Milla on the bench, who has just overcome the coronavirus, so he introduced up to five changes in his eleven compared to the one he used in the defeat of the previous day in Eibar (2-0).
The game started with rhythm and a promising start for the locals, as in the first few measures Antonio Puertas forced the Dutch goalkeeper Marc Andre Ter Stegen to make a great save.
Barcelona, however, began to impose its dominance from the possession of the ball with a first arrival by Pedri González in a good individual action that was close to culminating in success.
The clash began to take Barça color with the 0-1 marked before the quarter of an hour by Griezmann, who easily surpassed the Portuguese Rui Silva after landing a ball in a frank position to score after a pass from Sergio Busquets to the Argentine Leo Messi who touched Roberto Soldado to divert the trajectory of the shipment.
The offside indicated in the first instance by the referee was later corrected by the VAR to grant the goal amid protests from the locals.
The complaints from Granada intensified after the 0-2, signed by Messi in the 35th minute with a tight shot from outside the area to culminate a counterattack well carried by Griezmann, when he understood that there was a hand from Sergio Busquets at the beginning of the play.
Between one goal and another, Barça had already become a clear dominator of the match, extending its possessions despite the intense pressure from the Andalusians and seeking the imbalance pOr inside with Messi and on the right with an active but unsuccessful shot Ousmane Dembele.
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A cross shot from Roberto Soldado and a loose shot from Venezuelan Darwin Machís that Ter Stegen caught without problems were the attempts of Granada’s reaction, which received the blow from 0-3 before the break.
Messi was reunited with the hit from a set piece with a powerful shot hitting the post who tried to cover Rui Silva in a direct free kick very close to the area after a foul by Cameroonian Yan Eteki on Pedri that the rojiblancos did not see clearly either.
Diego Martínez tried to change his face and dose his team with a triple change at half-time, with Ter Stegen again appearing against Antonio Puertas in a good second-half start for Granada.
The script of the first half was traced in the second when the visitors went on to dominate the game with sufficiency, who controlled the rhythm of the clash at all times from the good treatment of the ball.
The Dutchman Frankie De Jong, after a good personal action, touched the 0-4, marked by Griezmann in the 63rd minute with a cross shot after a good pass from Dembele.
With the game sentenced and the two technicians reserving important players from their teams for future appointmentsLike a Messi who was changed by Koeman in the 65th minute, the final stretch of the duel was totally inconsequential.
Granada, to add insult to injury, played outnumbered from minute 78 when Jesús Vallejo was sent off with a red card for knocking down Danish Martin Braithwaite on a clear chance of scoring away.
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