Superb goal from Pedri gives Barcelona victory against Sevilla

And it’s that Barca went for the game from the start and put a devilish pace into the game that allowed him to get close to Bono again and again.

But that is usually not enough with Sevilla, one of the strongest teams in the league. The Andalusians gave away the bands as they covered all the inland waterways, with Koundé and Diego Carlos imperial.

And the Barca team tried without aiming, with a screwball from Ferran Torres that narrowly missed the left side of the Sevilla goal, another long shot from Pedri that went high, a deflected volley from Jordi Alba and a header too high from Frenkie de Jong to the center of Dembélé.

With a brilliant Pedri at the helm of operations, he approached the goal defended by Bono but lacked precision in the final meters.

Still, in the latter part of the first half, the Sevilla goalkeeper finally seemed to stop a poisoned shot from Ferran Torres after touching a defender and another cross from Aubameyang that stopped in two legs.

Meanwhile, Sevilla occasionally disconnected from Barca and tried to get closer to Ter Stegen’s goal when he got the ball back. But only an isolated move by Martial, who fell to the left again and again to take advantage of Alves’ defensive shortcomings, hampered the Barca defence.

Still, the visitors went into halftime without having fired a single shot on target. Lamela did it at the start of the restart, after a run to the left of Ocampos, but Ter Stegen saved the ball.

However, it was still Barca that dominated the game, with Pedri enjoying himself between the lines and receiving applause from Camp Nou every time he made up a move that almost always ends without a finisher.

After game time, the clearest would arrive for the Barça team. Bono shot Ferran Torres off the field on a first-touch pass by Dembélé, Araujo’s header and Pique’s shot. Piqué himself headed a corner on the crossbar on the next play and Dembélé finished off a bitten off into the area that went wide.

Barca were focused on the win and Sevilla began to have more room to find Ter Stegen, who had to intervene on a Martial shot and saw a free kick from Rakitic grazed into the right corner of his goal.

But then Pedri appeared again, to pick up a ball from the front and stop time again, like in Istanbul. Two feints, two feints, two small shortenings with his small body were enough to collapse two defenders in his path before he turned the ball off the leg and crossed it with a dry whip to the long post without Bono being able to reach him.

Pedri’s stunning goal eighteen minutes before the end unleashed madness in the stands and among his team-mates, who ran frantically to embrace the young Canarian talent.

With the Camp Nou handed over to its new idol, Barça had yet another connection between Dembéle and Ferran that broke off another sensational Bono.

But Sevilla were also able to equalize stoppage time, as Ter Stegen made up for a poor first run and dodged the goal in the ensuing shot from a recently called in Agustinsson.