Comfortable 4-0 victory for the culés, who provisionally placed second
MADRID, 24 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
FC Barcelona beat Getafe CF by a comfortable 4-0 this Saturday, with goals from Raphinha Dias, João Félix, Frenkie De Jong and Fermín López, in a match on matchday 26 of LaLiga EA Sports and which favored the culés by its dizzying pace, given the numerous imbalances of the blue team in defense.
At the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, the visitors had the first dangerous chance. Luis Milla stole the ball from De Jong on the edge of the area and Mason Greenwood hit a left-footed shot that was caught in two moments by the Blaugrana goalkeeper, Marc-André ter Stegen.
Barça responded thanks to Raphinha’s left-footed spur shot from a corner, which went over the crossbar. Getafe prowled around Ter Stegen and in the 18th minute asked for a penalty after a shot by Juan Iglesias inside the area, in another corner, which he hit on Jules Koundé’s elbow after the ball had bounced off his side.
Despite these approaches, the Madrid team began to fade and caused its opponent to gain ground. Raphinha constantly tried behind the defenders, especially upsetting Djené who, due to the demands of the script, had started the duel as a left back.
And so it was 1-0, scored by Raphinha in the 20th minute. A long pass from Koundé surpassed Getafe’s defensive line, which was poorly set up, and Barça’s ’11’ drove the ball in a race until he completed his sprint with a successful left-footed shot to the far post, which entered a hand’s breadth above the grass.
Raphinha himself had two other quick counterattacks in his boots, the first in the 40th minute and the second just before the break. But he failed in both, in the shot once and in the pass the other, while João Félix next to him despaired. The two Blaugrana attackers, absent from their team’s last matches, had a chance for redemption here.
Upon returning from the locker room, Getafe almost equalized with a right-footed shot from Milla that was quite far away and, after bouncing on the ground, crashed into the post due to Ter Stegen’s deflection with a mitt. José Bordalás’s pupils paid dearly for their audacity by conceding the 2-0 score shortly afterwards, when the 53rd minute was still running, as a result of another error in marking.
A LOT OF GUNPOWDER FROM SECONDARY ACTORS
The Barça team came out very well from behind and Koundé found a space to put the ball deep to Andreas Christensen, who advanced a few meters on Djené’s side until he assisted João Félix low, ready to push his goal almost at will from the second stick.
With hardly any time to recover, ‘Geta’ received the 3-0 lead due to a charge from De Jong. He controlled the Dutch midfielder in his own half, escaped from a couple of rivals, combined with Ilkay Gündogan and passed to Raphinha; He had to deal with the blue goalkeeper, but he cut David Soria with a half turn and gave the ball to De Jong to shoot.
Gastón Álvarez retreated to his goal, but did not arrive in time to clear the ‘tulip’s shot into an empty goal. Of Barça’s usual strikers, their greatest reference was missing as well; However, the Polish Robert Lewandowski only got it right once and everything was annulled due to his offside.
Fermín López did score, already in injury time, after Soria rejected a point-blank shot by Vitor Roque, after the umpteenth local counterattack. This clear victory placed Xavi Hernández’s pupils with 57 points, in provisional second place; For its part, ‘Geta’ remained with 34 points in the middle of the table.
DATASHEET.
–RESULT: FC BARCELONA, 4 – GETAFE, 0 (1-0, at halftime).
–ALIGNMENTS.
FC BARCELONA: Ter Stegen; Koundé, Araujo, Cubarsi, Cancelo (Fort, min.84); De Jong, Christensen (Vitor Roque, min.77), Gündogan (Pedri, min.83); Felix (Fermin, min.63), Raphinha (Romeu, min.77) and Lewandowski.
GETAFE: Soria; Iglesias (Carmona, min.46), Gastón, Alderete, Djené (Aleñá, min.68); Maksimovic (Mata, min.67), Milla, Moriba (Santiago, min.78), Rico, Greenwood (Ó.Rodríguez, min.67); and Mayoral.
–GOALS:
1-0, min.20: Raphinha.
2-0, min.53: João Félix.
3-0, min.61: De Jong.
4-0, min.90+1: Fermín.
–REFEREE: Muñiz Ruiz (C.Gallego). He yellow carded Gündogan (min.37) at FC Barcelona, and Alderete (min.37), Djené (min.48), Rico (min.50) and Santiago (min.90) at Getafe.
— STADIUM: Olímpic Lluís Companys.
–INCIDENTS: In the preludes, a minute of silence was observed for the victims of the fire in the Campanar neighborhood (Valencia).
2024-02-24 17:16:51
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