A goal from Jordan Alba in minute 85 tied a little more LaLiga for the Barcelona, who suffered a lot from the defeat (1-0) a Osasuna full of substitutes and who played for more than an hour with one man less.
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The azulgranas continue to count down the days to sing the alirón of a championship that has only five days to go and in which they take 14 points from the RealMadrid. Today, with another dose of drama, he returned to resolve minimally, despite being much better than his rival throughout the game.
Xavi Hernandez he repeated the eleven that thrashed Betis and Jagoba Arrasate put together a team with nine new faces, remembering next Saturday’s cup final – the second in its history – against Madrid.
Osasuna’s coach put Chimy Ávila and Torró as starters so that they could pick up the pace after the injury, opting for three players from the subsidiary such as Diego Moreno, Herrando and Iker Benito.
A combination of circumstances with which he managed to save himself for 85 minutes in the Spotify Camp Nou. And that in minute 27 the referee sent rookie Herrando off the field with a straight red for taking down Pedri when he went off alone, poised to win one-on-one with Aitor Fernandez.
During this first half, Barça dominated at will, but I hardly created any real scoring chances. The Barça team put all its offensive on Balde’s speed on the left wing, the clairvoyance of Pedro between the lines and De Jong’s ubiquity in midfield, but he lacks cleanliness in the final metres.
A deflected shot from Pedri on a Balde cross, a free kick from Raphinha that went past the left corner of Aitor Fernández’s goal and a high header from Araujo from a corner were the highlights of the home offensive.
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In addition, Barça lost Gavi after 36 minutes, who was replaced by Ansu Fati due to adductor discomfort in his right leg.
Well withdrawn, Osasuna did not allow his rival to maneuver comfortably, although he could only get close to Ter Stegen’s goal with two timid shots from the front from Ibáñez and Torró that failed to find a target.
The game script would have changed at the start of the restart if Ansu Fati had scored on a ball from Lewandowski, but Aitor Fernández was expected to cover the shot.
The Osasuna goalkeeper resurfaced ten minutes later to convert De Jong’s shot into a corner kick. And Ansu Fati, to meet Aitor Fernández.
A recently conceded Dembele, who only finished for the Osasuna goalkeeper when all he had to do was push him between the three sticks, warned Barca again. Also Lewandowski, from whom Aitor Fernández grabbed a hand from a dry shot and adjusted shortly after on the right post.
There were twenty minutes left and fear began to take over Xavi’s team. Osasuna wanted to play with that and also some inaccuracy from Ter Stegen when the ball came out. But Barcelona started to smell the competition and surrounded the red goal with twenty minutes to play.
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A clearance from Aitor Fernández bounced off ferran torres and it almost ended 1–0 with Iglesias Villanueva canceling out a Lewandowski goal due to Ferran’s previous offside.
Until five minutes before the finish Jordi Alba, who had come on a few minutes earlier to replace Balde, controlled a ball hanging in the area that dejong He had moved down so that he received it in the left corner of the area and surprised Aitor Fernández with the outside of his left foot.
L’Hospitalet’s winger’s goal unleashed delirium at the Camp Nou and confirmed the title.
Source: El heraldo
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