Barcelona regained its balance after the painful “El Clásico” loss to Real Madrid, with an exciting victory over its guest, “deficient” Valencia, 2-4, after being 1-2 behind, to regain second place from its neighbor, Girona, in the match that brought them together at the Luis Stadium. Companis Olympic, at the end of the 33rd round of the Spanish League.
Barça killed more than one bird with this result, as it was guaranteed to participate in the Champions League next season, and it also returned to winning ways quickly, albeit with a “moral” victory, after losing the “Clasico” in the fatal time (2-1), which ended the competition “clinically.” “For the championship title, which he holds for the rival Madrid club. Coach Xavi Hernandez’s squad also regained second place from neighboring Girona, which defeated Las Palmas (0-2) outside its home base, by two points, after its score reached 73 points. The victory also preserved Barcelona’s record without any loss at home in its confrontations against the “Bats” over a period of 8 years, specifically since its fall in April 2016 (1-2). While the “Bats” fell into the trap of their second loss in a row, their 12th this season, leaving their score at 47 points in eighth place.
Barcelona began to open the scoring in the 22nd minute, with a wonderful header from promising midfielder Fermin Lopez, assisted by Brazilian Rafinha, but the visitors responded harshly, not with one goal but two, and the equalizer came five minutes later through the foot of young striker Ugo Duro, who took advantage of a fatal error by the German. Ter Stegen tries to pass the ball, snatches it from him and puts it into the goalkeeper’s empty net.
In the 38th minute, Valencia took the lead from a penalty kick that Pebelo successfully scored into the net, and while the half was taking its last breath, the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology intervened.VAR“, in order to expel Valencia’s Georgian international goalkeeper, Georgi Mamardashvili, after he touched the ball with his hand outside the penalty area. Immediately at the beginning of the second half, Barca succeeded in equalizing from a technical corner kick executed by Ilkay Gundogan on the head of Polish star Robert Lewandowski.
The hosts pressed hard to score the third goal, which was achieved after several attempts in the 82nd minute, again with a header from Lewandowski.
The Polish star continued his brilliance with a hat-trick, after executing a wonderful free kick from outside the area, raising his total this season to 16 goals, as the top scorer for the Catalan team.
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