Al Barcelona it reached him with the penalty shootout in front of the Real society to qualify for the final of the Spanish Super Cup. Those led by Ronald Koeman triumphed 3-2 with shots from 12 steps after the 1-1 in regulation time and the extension. Lionel Messi, with discomfort, was not part of the game nor was he on the substitute bench in the city of Córdoba. The other key will be defined tomorrow: they will act Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao.
Little and nothing happened throughout the 90 minutes, in which few goal situations were counted. Portu, alone in the area, had a good chance for the Basques, prior to the opening of the score in the head of the Dutchman Frenkie De Jong, who connected at 39 in the first half after the assistance of Antoine Griezmann. The tie came through a maximum penalty: Mikel Oyarzabal did not fail and matched the issue in the stadium New Archangel.
The juiciest of the action was in overtime, where both generated situations to unbalance. At minute 99 Dembélé received in the area and hooked for his right, weakly finished the goalkeeper’s body and felt a pain that almost took him out of the game. Already in the second overtime the one who wasted his chance was Griezmann, with a good volley retained by the rival goalkeeper. On a backlash, Oyarzabal had an ineffective double.
In the epilogue, the Belgian Adnan Januzaj was the protagonist: a formidable run on the right ended with a right-hand kick well cleared by Ter Stegen; On the hour he tried a left-handed free kick that the Barça goalkeeper brushed with his nails before he crashed into the post.
In the batch, in Barcelona the German goalkeeper showed off again, which contained the first two shots at Bautista and Oyarzabal. Real Sociedad also missed its third shot off the feet of Willian José, who ran into the post. The conversions of Merino and Januzaj were in vain because the Catalans were right with Dembélé, Pjanic and Riqui Puig (those who missed were De Jong, at the post, and Griezmann, over the crossbar).
Koeman had already warned in the previous one that Messi, along with other teammates, were touched. The Argentine was not part of the reactivation in the morning and that is why he was preserved. This is how the Rosario observed his teammates from the rostrum, since he had been part of the delegation that traveled for the match.
Tomorrow from 5:00 p.m. Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao will meet in the other semifinal. Whoever passes will be seen against the Catalans next Sunday, January 17 at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville.
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