Play better or worse, Barça de Flick never surrenders, an expert in traced and final victorious such as Orriols, winner in the 90th minute of a game very well disputed by Levante. The thread center with Lamine’s left -handed and Elgezabal combed the ball to the field of fields. In the absence of football authority, the Barca ones resolved the encounter with somewhat granted by the rival and two corner serves, actions starring their individualities: Lamine, Ferran and, especially, Pedri. The quality and hierarchy of Tenerife were decisive for a more efforted team than brilliant and did not stop moving his skin to turn around a game greatly visualized by Levante.
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Pablo Campos, Manu Sánchez (Diego Pampín, Min. 74), Unai Elgezabal, Jorge Cabello, Jeremy Toljan (Víctor García, Min. 85), Adrián de la Fuente, José Luis Morales (Carlos Álvarez, Min. 58), Oriol Rey, Pablo Martínez, Roger Brugué (Carlos Espí, Min. 74) and Iván Romero (Iker Losada, Min.
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Joan García, Alejandro Balde (Robert Lewandowski, Min. 75), Pau Cubarsí, Eric García (Jules Koundé, Min. 84), Ronald Araujo (Andreas Christensen, Min. 75), Pedri, Marc Casadó (Gavi, Min. 45), Lamine Yamal, Marcus Rashford (Dani Olmo, Min. 45) Towers
Goals
1-0 min. 14: Iván Romero. 1-1 min. 48: Pedri. 2-1 min. 51: Morales. 2-2 min. 51: Ferrán Torres. 2-3 min. 90: Elgezabal
Referee Alejandro José Hernández Hernández
Yellow cards
Bucket (min. 43), Morales (min. 45), Pablo Martínez (min. 47), Diego Pampín (min. 88)
Flick was not useful to plant a very offensive formation with the presence of Rashford as the left end and Raphinha of the third steering wheel, headline before Olmo and Fermín. The attack of Barcelona did not find a way to find the goal of Campos and on the contrary the rear was portrayed by the direct football of the Levante, as the Barça coach feared. The Alignment of Casadó as a support in the absence of De Jong – anusant for paternity – and Gavi did not contribute the consistency, control and positional game that Flick intended. It was not only an individual issue but a collective and structural issue because the replication of the team was always slower than the transitions of the Levant.
A loss of Lamine caused the Fulmina de Manu Sánchez, a change of guidance towards Toljan and the extraordinary chut of Romero. The control, cut and shooting had no replica of the Barca centrals before the revelry of Orriols. The game to the Levante space was much more vigorous and effective than the ball at the foot of Barcelona. There was no intensity or depth in the Flick team, denied inside and forced to look for the bands with Rashford and Lamine, persevering in their duel with Manu Sánchez. The Barcelona frustration was increasing due to the lack of occasions if a very frank shot is excepted to Ferran’s crossbar, enabled by Pedri, and a raphinha header that touched the left stick of fields.
The strikers had a hard time finding auction situations, lacking interior passes, and the defenses were often exposed, tense not to fail when throwing the out of play, and without waist at the time of containing the Levante. The backs of the centrals creak and the media did not find their site before the internships of Brugué, Sánchez and Morlanes. No player suffers more than Cubarsí from the departure of Iñigo Martínez. The Levante did not stop with Romero’s goal, but insisted on his rush and reached 2-0 with a penalty of Morales. A striker’s shot on Balde’s arm and the referee pointed out the maximum penalty after consulting with the VAR in the face of the disagreement of Barcelona’s players.
Flick immediately corrected himself at the break: he removed Casadó and Rashford, his two initial bets, and gave entrance to Olmo and Gavi. The response was equally immediate because Barcelona took only five minutes to match the score from the corner flag: Pedri hooked a superb shot from outside the area and shortly after Ferran packed the 2-2. The Barça success contrasted with the two disappointments to the ball stopped from the Levante, collapsed in a moment after having touched the 3-0 with a Brugué action. The game since then was very open, very alive sometimes already times more leisurely, without Barcelona managing to impose its game or the Levante could match the version of an unforgettable first time in Orriols.
Flick then opted to turn the game with a three central defense and the entrance of Lewandowski. The changes announced that the game would end on the court of a burst and disappointed lift. Barça aspired to an end like the one lived with Benfica. The outcome was just as victorious after resorting to the stopped ball, a kind of an ambitious team that refuses to lose, willing to have a good attack despite a fragile defense, to score a goal more than the rival, last night an excellent lift.
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