He Barca is in the round of 16 of the King’s Cupbut suffered much more than expected to beat the Guadalajaraa team plunged into relegation positions First RFEF. Christensen He was the hero of a Barça team that finished in the top 11 on the pitch. Pedro Escartin. (Narration and match statistics).
He wasn’t breathing easily browse all night. There was a little relief in the 77th minute when Christensen, with the help of a defender, headed a cross into the goal. De Jong from the top of the region. It was the only positive news from a Barça who played with fire for too many minutes.
Guadalajara offered everything it had. A commendable exercise in physicality, intensity and defensive order, which came to an end in an action with a pinch of bad luck. The Danish central defender’s header went straight Daniel Vicentethe best of the locals, but the contact on one of their defenders changed the direction of the ball and cut short the cup dream of the La Mancha team.
Lamine Yamal, during the match against Guadalajara.
EFE
He barely had any strength left in the final minutes. Barça, with Pedri On the pitch, he started to delay and move the ball from side to side to look for spaces and make the decision. They found it in the 90th minute thanks to a great action Rashford deceive the goalkeeper with his body and score at will.
Small bite
The match started half an hour later than scheduled due to problems in Pedro Escartin’s extra stands. Maybe it was that, or also the great intensity of Guadalajara in every action, but Barça entered the match very cold. They dominated, it was practically a monologue, but they did not offer enough attack to take the advantage on the scoreboard.
And Flick brought men of the caliber of Lamine, Eric, De Jong, Fermín and Rashford into the fray. Also a Ter Stegen who made his debut this season and barely worked for the first 45 minutes.
De Jong, during the match against Guadalajara.
An eleven of guarantees which failed to beat the 5-4-1 of Guadalajara. They didn’t move the ball quickly, the Barça team lacked imagination and the danger came slowly.
Eric García dressed in ‘9’ to forgive two clear heads and a whip of Fermin from the outside, the area that touched the corner was the most drinkable thing of Barça which spoiled half of the match. Flick wasn’t happy and had to change things at halftime if he didn’t want to get into unnecessary trouble.
The wait until the end
Barça’s face seemed to change after the break with a double chance from Rashford in just five minutes. Two first shots at point blank range which hit two miraculous feet of Vicente. It was a good start, but Flick’s team ran out of steam as the minutes passed.
As time passed, Guadalajara hardly generated any danger, but they defended their goal very well, exasperating an increasingly nervous Culé team. Flick put more meat on the grill and presented Baldé, Koundé and Pédri to resolve the vote.
And he finally succeeded. But not without suffering. The home team’s resistance ended in the 76th minute. A cross to the far post from De Jong and a header from Christensen which brushes past a local defender before finishing in the back of the net.
The Guadalajara dream ended there. They advanced their lines in search of the impossible, but they lacked the strength to worry Ter Stegen. With the team already knocked down, Lamine sent Rashford running and the Englishman got rid of Vicente with a feint and scored at will to seal Barca’s place in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey.
About The Author
