Joan Recital & Fermín Lace: A Cultural Blend

Joan Garcia He was already aiming to be the main protagonist of the match from the start and overcame the most difficult match of his career so far with an excellent score. Barça’s 0-2 victory at the RCDE Stadium cannot be explained without the saves of a Barcelona goalkeeper which has already kept four clean sheets, which has now added nine consecutive victories in LaLiga, puts pressure on Real Madrid at the gates of the Super Cup,

Flick wanted to have a head and think in the medium term, that is, in the Spanish Super Cup and decided to reserve Pedri on the bench initially, leaving the midfield for Eric, along with De Jong and Raphinha, while in attack Ferran confirmed that he is still ahead of Lewandowski. For its part, Manolo repeated the lineup with respect to the team that won in Bilbao, something that is not usual for him, but keeping the recovered Ramon Terrats and Javi Puado on the bench.

The focus of the match was on Joan García, who returned to the RCDE Stadium in an atmosphere in which they asked for his head.. And the entrance goalkeeper more than responded. 20 seconds into the game he kicked his first ball with absolute calm. 20 minutes later the Blaugrana avoided a double chance for Roberto and Pere Milla in which Joan pushed a dazed Gerard Martín who stayed in the area catching flies and who rejected the Spanish attacker’s second shot thanks to the movement of his teammate.

In the second half the sensational recital of the former Espanyol goalkeeper followedwho stole two goals from Roberto with saves as extraordinary as those Dmitrovic made against Eric in the second half. It was a game of taking advantage of the chances and Espanyol ran into Joan García, but while the locals were unable to save the goals that Joan García stopped and that culminated in Fermín’s actions that facilitated the final goals from Olmo (a great goal) and that of Lewandowski.

Joan’s great save in the first half came five minutes before half-time when he produced a prodigious hand to Pere Milla’s header from Romero’s cross.

Espanyol had the two big chances in a first half in which Barcelona dominated the game without doing any damage because two of their forwards, Ferran Torres and Rashford seemed to play with the rival. Ferran missed a clear chance after two minutes after a mistake by Calero and The Englishman was a turnover machine. It is fair to say that he worked to recover them, but he was signed to make a difference up front.

With Ferran and Rashford harmless, it was Lamine Yamal the only argument for Barça’s attack, but without creating too many problems for Dmitrovic, who safely saved the only two shots from a very flat Barça in the first act.

Flick’s bet to place Raphinha As a center midfielder he left Barça without an outlet and creation in the center of the field. The Blaugrana team arrived at half-time shouting for Pedri.

He controlled the ball without danger and Espanyol threatened on counterattacks and in set pieces in which Exposito He is a teacher.

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Flick started the second half by removing Rashford from the field and bringing on Fermín, bringing Raphinha back to the side. And the appearance of Fermín was fundamental after Joan García saved Barça twice before, after a triple substitution by Flick, that introduced Pedri, Lewandowski and Olmo had an effect and Barça will manage to dismantle the resistance of an Espanyol that, thanks to the security measures arranged by the Mossos and the work of the board prevented any unpleasant incident even though the star of the game was the player whose head the crowd was asking for. Yours is worth much more.

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