Two of the biggest European football clubs took part in a beautiful challenge at Camp Nou in a match organized to raise funds for research on the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). More than 90,000 fans watched the game between Barcelona and Manchester City with former Barcelona goalkeeper and assistant coach Juan Carlos Unzue, diagnosed with an incurable neurodegenerative disease in 2020. All funds raised from ticket sales for the match will go towards research on ALS.
Pep Guardiola’s team took the lead with Julian Alvarez, who took advantage of a mistake by Barça’s goalkeeper; but Barcelona duo Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Frenkie De Jong turned the score around before Cole Palmer equalized with 20 minutes remaining. Memphis Depay brought the Catalans back and in the final minutes came Mahrez’s equalizer from the penalty spot.
The award of the penalty generated a lot of controversy and a lot of irony on social media because Erling Haaland fell to the ground after minimal contact with Andreas Christensen and the theatricality of the gesture aroused a lot of surprise.
On social media, they rushed to comment on Haaland’s fall during Wednesday night’s friendly at Camp Nou and the comments were the most disparate: from “sand if that happened in an official match I would be furious” to the most classic“Haaland should have won a gold medal for that dive” as far as “That penalty killed me. Haaland dove in and then laughed at the defender.”
Haaland’s behavior was labeled by another as “shameless” and particularly annoyed Barcelona fans as the home side rose to applaud the Norwegian striker as he warmed up before taking the field.
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