Barcelona beat Celta and are close to runner-up

The most effective Barcelona, ​​with Ousmane Dembélé as the paradigm, took another step towards second place in LaLiga Santander after beating Celta (3-1) in a match led by the concerns of Ronald Araujo, who had to go with a serious head injury must be rushed to a hospital.

The azulgranas went up one more from the 58th minute due to Murillo’s expulsion and could secure that second place, subject to the next results of Sevilla and Atlético de Madrid.

It was a trial and error exercise. Without Busquets, as a midfielder, Xavi went looking for other things. Sometimes individual markings, others populating midfielders or playing with superiority in attack, but the various options didn’t work.

Frenkie de Jong’s suit does not suit him. The Dutchman needs more touches to engage his wingers and thus loses the surprise effect. Alba played many minutes in midfield, but he also felt uneasy and the defense trio (Alves, Araujo, Eric García) felt out of place.

Eduardo Coudet’s Celta was much more orderly, the celestials had more ideas but little arrival. Iago Aspas barely played in the first half and the biggest danger was Cervi from the left and Galhardo, who finished the most on goal.

The match moved on a flat EEG until two flashes appeared. Dembélé, until then not very lucid, stretched after half an hour, raffled off two defenses and gave the goal to Memphis.

The Frenchman drove out Javi Galán by means of a pipe and with a short regat from Cervi. His center in the heart of the area was used by Memphis to defeat Dituro. It was the winger’s twelfth assist and the orange’s twelfth goal.

Celta reacted via Galhardo, who forced a clever intervention from Ter Stegen in the 37th minute, and in the closing part of the first half, the Dutch connection (de Jong-Memphis) seemed to brighten up the game of the local population.

Memphis, the best of his team in the first 45 minutes, was decisive in the 2-0. He played intelligently on the left, Aubameyang was ready for Nestor’s mistake and the Barca striker put second on the Barca scoreboard, certainly too much for the merits of Xavi’s men.

The host of the second half was Dembélé. Every time he intervened, something happened. As in 48, when he served Aubameyang to a board 3-0, in the certainty that the connection with his former team-mate from Dortmund works the most (3-0).

The mirage of 3-0, however, disappeared with a serious error by Ter Stegen who gave the ball to a Celta striker and Aspas did not forgive (3-1, min. 50).

The eviction of Murillo, in an action with Memphis (58), and the fright caused by Araujo (min. 62), who had to be evacuated by ambulance due to a severe blow to the head and in a Hospital of Barcelona, ​​​​the final match canceled.

From that moment on, the assembly collapsed. Celta raised the white flag and Barça took a win that put them two points behind number two, the highest they could aim for.