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Barcelona, with Ronald Araujo as starter, defeated Las Palmas 2-1 as a visitor on the 19th round of the Spanish LaLiga, with a penalty in added time converted by Ilkay Gundogan, a result that keeps the culé team in the fight for the title, although distant from Real Madrid and Girona.
The three points added against the island team (10th with 25 points) allow Xavi Hernández’s men to climb back to third place, with three points more than Atlético Madrid (now 5th), which lost to Girona on Wednesday, and place themselves seven from Real Madrid, winner against Mallorca.
The newly promoted Canarian team dominated the current League champion for many minutes with a seal of La Masía, Barça’s training center. Both the man who scored the Pío-Pío goal, Munir El Haddadi, and the one who gave the decisive pass, Sandro, and the local coach, Xavi García Pimienta, played or trained in the youth ranks of the Barça club.
The match did not start well for Barça, who saw Portuguese full-back Joao Cancelo have to leave in the 11th minute due to knee discomfort after a split ball. Just a minute later, an active and motivated Sandro crossed low from the right so that Munir hunted on the edge of the small area, touching just enough to save the exit of goalkeeper Iñaki Peña.
Barça could have reached the break with a greater disadvantage, especially due to a low shot by Sandro that Peña took for a corner (23′), or a new attempt by the former Barça forward that rejected the post (28′).
In the second act, which began with a slight delay until the workers solved a tear in the nets of one of the goals, Barça showed themselves more capable of translating their greater possession of the ball on occasions and it didn’t take long for the goal to arrive. tie.
An unfortunate clearance from the rear hit the head of a previously missing Robert Lewandowski, the ball reached Sergi Roberto, who passed to Ferran to beat Álvaro Vallés softly and low.
And with the clock at the Gran Canaria stadium marking added time, a penalty from the Dutchman Daley Sinkgraven for a slight push on Gundogan resulted in the winning goal, the work of the German midfielder himself, which holds Barça to its chances of putting up a fight. for the league title.
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FútbolUy – Montevideo Portal
2024-01-04 22:55:00
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