Slavia Prague vs Barcelona: Live Score & Updates

Barcelona leaves Prague with its homework done after beating Slavia (2-4) in a complicated duel and achieves the goal of the night, the three points that allow it to continue in the fight for a place among the eight best in the regular phase of the Champions League, the last one that gives the right to a direct place in the round of 16.

But not everything has been good news on the cold night that took place at the Eden Arena. Pedri had to leave at game time with a visible limp and will have to undergo medical tests to determine the extent of the injury and the recovery time.

There is only one day left in the regular phase of the Champions League and, right now, there are eight teams with 13 points, including Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid.

Hansi Flick faced this decisive match without the presence of Lamine Yamal, who was serving his one-match suspension after receiving a second yellow card in the previous matchday against Frankfurt. The German decided to take Roony out instead of his franchise player.

The Blaugrana started the game with a great chance from Fermín that did not come to fruition, a first warning for what would be the man of the match. Despite that early opportunity, Barça had not quite started on the icy Czech grass and after ten minutes they found themselves with a goal against, the result of a set-piece action, where all forces were equal.

Slavia took a corner kick that extended with a header at the first post Holes towards the second, where Kusej got rid of De Jong to beat Joan García and increase the score to 1-0 at the Eden Arena.

The Blaugrana once again showed that defensive weakness in which this season any team is capable of hurting them. Furthermore, the Czechs had found a way to freeze Pedri, and not just because of the cold, as he could not find his place on the field.

Without Pedri on his best night, it was Fermín who took the pulse of the duel to avoid greater evils. The youth player and De Jong communicated with a single look and the Dutchman filtered a diagonal pass for him to run into the area, which he finished first. It was unappealable and a pure ‘9’ execution, (1-1, min. 33).

And the repertoire of this ‘jewel’ of the Masía, as it already demonstrated at the Paris Games, is very varied. With barely five minutes left before the break, Fermín invented a work of art in the form of a shot from outside the area to confirm his team’s comeback against Slavia, (1-2, min.41).

With almost no time to celebrate, Barcelona threw the lead down the drain on another corner kick. Again, another extension with a header at the near post ended in a goal, but this time in an own goal. Chaloupek’s haircut hit Lewandowski in the back and the ball ended up in the back of Joan García’s net (2-2, min. 43).

Barcelona had the entire second half left to take control of the scoreboard again and take definitive control of the game. After the restart, De Jong scored what could have been the visitors’ third goal, but after a VAR review, the goal was annulled due to a positional offside by Eric García, who did not intervene in the play, but the referee interpreted it as such.

That bad news, mentioned above, came at game time, when Pedri said enough and asked for a change. The canary left the field limping and Flick took the opportunity to make a double move. In addition to the entry of Dani Olmo, he also gave way to Rashford, who came in for Roony.

The setback in the form of Pedri’s injury translated shortly after into a great goal from Dani Olmo. The Barça midfielder received a ball in front of him and put his shot into the top corner to, this time, score his team’s third (2-3, min.63).