Not happy about a home win
Barça star collapses after being hit in the head
05/11/2022, 00:05
FC Barcelona is about to end a very difficult and initially terrible season with a win. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang points to runners-up victory against Celta Vigo. However, concerns about Ronald Araujo, who has a head injury, prevail.
Thanks to his Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang brace, FC Barcelona has consolidated second place in the Spanish football championship behind arch-rivals Real Madrid. The former Dortmund player scored in LaLiga on matchday 36 in a 3-1 (2-0) win against Celta Vigo just before (41st) and just after the break (48th). He has now scored eleven goals in the league since moving from Arsenal in the winter.
Memphis Depay (30′) scored the third goal for Barça. Having endured a difficult season, the Catalans are now seven points clear of Sevilla FC, who still have three games to play. The Catalans had already made the renewed participation in the Champions League perfect last weekend by beating Betis Sevilla (2-1). Madrid became champions for the 35th time earlier this month.
After the red card for Jeison Murillo (58th), Vigo played a good 30 minutes outnumbered. Previously, Iago Aspas had reduced the lead to 1: 3 for the table eleventh (50th). National goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen returned after an illness and played through for the hosts. Barcelona centre-back Ronald Araujo had to be taken off the field by ambulance after a head-to-head collision. Immediately after the collision, Araujo collapsed and required lengthy treatment. According to the club, the professional suffered a concussion and should be examined in detail in the hospital.
How tense the economic situation of FC Barcelona remains despite the happy end of the season became known on Tuesday afternoon. In the 2020/21 Corona season, Spanish football clubs in LaLiga lost 892 million euros. More than half of the minus went to FC Barcelona. Mainly because of the ghost games, sales fell by 24.1 percent to 3.8 billion euros. It is the first loss since 2012. “The high level of financial solvency and the sense of responsibility shown by most clubs has helped Spanish football weather this crisis,” the league said. “A strong recovery is expected in the 2021/22 season before Complete normality should be achieved again in 2023/24.”
