And Xavi’s Barcelona, subscribed to the epic, to strong emotions, to unexpected shipwreck, to chain shocks, he finally stopped suffering. And he did it, due to one of those whims that football has, against Getafe de Bordalás, one of the teams against which he suffers the most.
This time, the duel stopped having emotion within an hour. And not only because of the 3-0 that the scoreboard then recorded, but because of the sensations that Barça left from the opening whistle.
This time, the Estadio Olímpico Lluís Companyswho has seen no less than ten points disappear this season in matches that have had surprising twists in the script, breathed a sigh of relief.
And also the chroniclers of Barcelona matches, who have practically not experienced a calm match of the Barça team this season, determined to turn being a sports journalist into a risky profession.
And the visitors had the first chance of the game with a shot from the edge of Greenwood, who stole Frenkie de Jong’s wallet before testing Ter Stegen in the 6th minute. A classic start for the locals that, this time, had no consequences on the scoreboard.
The Barça team would respond in the following play with an acrobatic spur shot by Raphinha, coming off a corner, which came off the crossbar. But the best Barça chances would not come from set pieces, but rather with long balls to their forwards to overcome the Barça defense, which left many meters behind them every time they pressed their rival high.
For example, in the 1-0 play, the work of Raphinha, who received a deep pass from Kounde and crossed with his left foot over Soria’s exit after twenty minutes.
Barcelona repeated again and again the formula of filtering long balls into space to overcome the high pressure of the Madrid team and look for the second of the afternoon.
And so Joao Félix had it, from whom Soria took a shot with the toe of his right foot, and again Raphinha, who shot high in the first and was imprecise in a pass to Joao Félix so that he only had to push it, shortly after.
Getafe was suffering at the back, a detail that surely did not appear in Bordalás’ game script, against which Xavi’s Barça had only scored one goal in four duels until today.
The blues only worried Ter Stegen from afar, with a new innocent shot from Greenwood and another from Alderete that forced the German goalkeeper to fly to the right corner of his goal midway through the first half. And at the beginning of the restart, with a forty-meter whip from Milla that crashed into the post.
Barcelona, on the other hand, continued to enjoy the transition, and in a team play that began with the beardless Cubarsí taking the ball from behind as if he were a veteran, Joao Felix ended up scoring the 2-0 at will after receiving an assist from Christensen in 53.
Eight minutes later, De Jong would be rewarded for his spectacular ride from the center of the field, receiving a gift from Raphinha after overcoming Soria’s exit. And between one goal and another, the referee annulled it another to Lewandowski for offside.
Neither Bordalás’s rosary of change trying to stop the bleeding nor the appearance of rain spoiled the round match that the Barça team finally completed in Montjuïc. A deflected shot by Oscar inside the area and another by the visiting scorer, Borja Mayoral, with a quarter of an hour remaining, was all that Barcelona allowed Getafe while taking a break before putting the icing on the cake to his great afternoon in the addition.
Another brilliant action by Cubarsí when the ball was released, another exceptional drive by De Jong with a filtered pass to Vitor Roque. And Fermín’s goal, which hit Soria’s rebound of Vitor Roque’s shot into the back of the net.
– Datasheet
4 – Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Koundé, Araujo, Cubarsí, Joao Cancelo (Héctor Fort, min.83); Christensen (Romeu, min.77), De Jong, Gündogan (Pedri, min.83); Raphinha (Vitor Roque, min.77), Joao Félix (Fermín, min.63) and Lewandowski.
0 – Getafe: Soria; Iglesias (Carmona, min.46), Gastón, Alderete, Djene (Aleñá, min.67); Greenwood (Óscar Rodríguez, min.67), Maksimovic (Mata, min.67), Milla, Ilaix Moriba (Yellu, min.77′), Diego Rico; Borja Mayoral.
Goals: 1-0: Raphinha, min.20. 2-0: Joao Félix, min.53. 3-0: De Jong, min.61. 4-0: Fermín, min.91.
Referee: Alejandro Muñiz Ruiz (Galician). He sanctioned the local Gündogan with a yellow card (min.37); to the visitors Alderete (min.37), Djene (min.48), Diego Rico (min.50) and Yellu (min.90).
Incidents: Matchday 26 of LaLiga EA Sports played at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in front of 36,803 spectators. Before the opening whistle, a minute of silence was held in memory of Joan Casals, popularly known as Barça’s Avi, Rodolf Peris, former delegate of the Barça first team, and the victims of the Valencia fire.
2024-02-24 17:40:05
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