Antwerp delves into Barça’s wound and complicates Xavi’s future

This Wednesday, Barça experienced another game to forget. The team led by Xavi fell in Belgium against Antwerp in a match in which the Blaugranas once again showed alarming defensive fragility. The goals from Vermeeren, Janssen and Ilenikhena poke into the wound of a team that went to the round of 16 as first in the group thanks to Porto’s victory against Shakhtar, but that is still on a roller coaster and now even the future of its coach has been complicated .

The match began with Barça stumbling over the same rock once again. The culés entered cold, without the tension that a Champions League match demands, and the consequence did not take long to arrive. In just two minutes Vermeeren condemned a bad start from behind between Iñaki Peña and Oriol Romeu and began a new adventure for Barcelona.

Antwerp

Butez, De Laet (Van Den Bosch, min. 94), Alderweireld, Coulibaly, Wijndal, Keita, Vermeeren, Alhassan Yussuf, Kerk (Bataille, min. 69), Janssen (Ilenikhena, min. 79) y Ejuke (Corbanie, min. .80).

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Barcelona

Iñaki Peña, Fort (Cancelo, min. 61), Koundé, Christensen, Balde, Sergi Roberto (Marc Casadó, min. 76), Oriol Romeu (Gündogan, min. 60), Fermín (Pedri, min. 60), Lamine Yamal , Lewandowski (Marc Guiu, min. 72) and Ferran Torres.

Goals: 1-0: min. 2. Vermeeren. 1-1: min. 35. Ferran Torres. 2-1: min. 56. Janssen. 2-2: min. 91. Marc Guiu. 3-2: min. 92. Ilenikhena,

Referee: Marco Guida (Italy). He booked Wijndal, Lamine Yamal, Sergi Roberto, De Laet, Ferran Torres and Bataille.

Incidents: Match corresponding to the sixth and final day of the Champions League, played at the Bosuilstadion before 13,550 spectators.

And he did what was now usual, rowing behind on the scoreboard, a scenario already known and which on this occasion he was going to face with extreme patience and generating danger from the sides. It was there that Lamine Yamal and Ferran Torres appeared to cook up a play that the former City player completed before the break to neutralize the blaugranas’ initial nap.

After the restart the match broke down. Barça looked for the second and opened the door to an Antwerp with nothing to lose. The Belgian team led by Van Bommel did damage in the transitions and, after warning with a goal disallowed, found the second goal in a new error by Oriol Romeu, very uncomfortable at all times. The former Girona midfielder lost a ball at the start and Janssen did not forgive Iñaki Peña. From there, Xavi played to the challenge. He introduced Pedri, Gündogan, Cancelo and Marc Guiu, and it was the latter who started the madness. Already in stoppage time the young Catalan striker equalized with a header and immediately afterwards Ilenikhena stood up against Iñaki Peña and culminated another fateful night for the culés. One more.

2023-12-13 22:34:44
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