Barcelona, with absolute dominance, prevented this Saturday from consummating another surprise of the Barbastro, of the Second RFEF, in the Copa del Rey, by imposing itself on obscure ground by a blunt 0-4 in the single-game elimination of the sixteen finals.
The dark team, which already last season left KO al Almeria when it was a member of First Division and that in this one gave a good account of Espanyol in the previous round, could not on this occasion exercise again as “matagigants.”
The challenge on this occasion seemed more utopian than ever, something that ended up confirming on the lawn of the Municipal Barbastense, and so repeated the story of last year in which both sets were also measured in an appointment and from which the blue team also emerged unscathed although on that occasion with more trouble.
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The triumph was the 100th victory of the German preparer Hansi Flick with his team and served to verify the recovery of Ronald Araujo, who returned to the pitch after six months of discharge due to the break of the left femoral biceps tendon from which he had to be surgically operated and who played the whole game.
The Catalan team took over the ball from the start of the match against a Barbastro folded behind with a line of five defenses and trying to close holes.
The Bara moved the ball too slowly so the first minutes to the dark ensemble gave him time to correct positions although as the meeting passed the meeting the visitors managed to approach the domains of the goal Arnau Fabrega.
Moving the ball from side to side of the field, Hansi Flick’s ensemble began to have superiorities on the sides from where he placed centers to the heart the area that made the locals suffer, although he missed leaking balls through the center.
In the 19th minute, and after a couple of previous head finishes in the previous minutes that did not take goal, Ronald Araujo in a semi-plane to mouth was about to score but the local cancer diverted to a corner in a great reflex intervention.
The resulting corner kick was combed by Araujo and riveted head-butting by Eric Garcia getting the first half of the game up to the scoreboard.
In the 30th minute, and again in a strategy action, in this case, a foul, the Barcelona team took advantage of its aerial superiority to put 0-2 on a header of Robert Lewandowski, a result with which the time of refreshment was reached.
If the Barbastro had any hope of unsettling its rival, it faded as soon as he returned from the locker room with the third part foreigner, the work of Lewandowski, who took with his body a ball per veteran before his score doubled.
In 55, a transfer to Arnau Fabrega was not well controlled by the goalkeeper of the dark ensemble which facilitated the fourth bluegrass, achieved by Pablo Torre, who had gone under pressure and met the goalkeeper’s error.
With the elimination decided the Bara lowered the piston slightly and that allowed the Barbastro to come out on a couple of occasions against but the Catalan lag, always well placed, aborted the Aragonese opportunities.
- Technical file:
0 – Barbastro: Arnau Fabregas (Victor Mendez, m.84), Hugo Bautista, Isra, Arroyo, Santigosa, Sito Barrera, Javito (Manu Castillo, m.77), Jaime (Prat, m.53), Albin, Guille Alonso (Oteo, m.77) and Ander (Gaston, m.53).
4 – Barcelona: Szczesny, Kounde (Sergi Dominguez, m.61), Araujo, Inigo Martinez (Cubarsi, m.61), Gerard Martin, De Jong, Eric Garcia, Fermin, Pedri (Gavi, m.46), Pablo Torre (Antonio Fernandez, m.79), and Lewandowski (Ansu Fati, m.61).
Goals: 0-1. M.20. Eric Garcia, 0-2. M.30. Lewandowski, 0-3. M.46. Lewandowski, 0-4. M.55. Pablo Tower.
Arbitrator: Diaz de Mera (Committee of Castile-La Mancha). He warned with yellow card Guille Alonso, of the Barbastro, and Lewandowski of Barcelona.
Incidences: elimination of sixteen finals of the Copa del Rey played in the Municipal of Barbastro that recorded a full (5,750 fans). Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny debuted as a blue-green player.
Barcelona will appeal to the Administrative Court of Sport (TAD), attached to the Higher Sports Council (CSD), after the Follow-up Commission of the Coordination Agreement LaLiga-RFEF (Real Spanish Football Federation), meeting this Saturday, has refused to re-register the Barcelona players Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.
This has been announced to EFE by the Catalan club through a spokesman for the entity. With this request for the application of a very precautionary measure, FC Barcelona seeks the registration of both players so that they can already be available for the Super Cup that is being held in Arabia.
The aforementioned commission after – the analysis of the applicable federal regulations has determined “not to grant the prior visa, nor the definitive license requested by FC Barcelona for players D. Daniel Olmo Carvajal and D. Pau Victor Delgado”, as stated in a statement.
The League and the RFEF add that they make this decision, according to the literal interpretation of articles 130.2 and 141.5 of the General Regulations of the RFEF that prevent a player whose license is canceled, in the course of the same season, from obtaining the license in the same team of the club to which it was already linked.
This is the case of Dani Olmo and Pau Victor, who on January 1, 2025, did not appear in the list of footballers registered by Barcelona on the official website of La Liga. Both were erased because Barcelona, according to the institution chaired by Javier Tebas, did not meet the requirements of the financial control regulations.
This forced Barcelona to apply to the RFEF for a new license under the argument of the greatest force, rejected by the maximum entity of Spanish football.
The Bara was unable to prove on the last day of the year, the collection of part of the 100 million euros it must receive for the transfer of the operation of the VIP boxes of the new Spotify Camp Nou, something that it was able to do this Friday after receiving the international transfers of the two investors from the Middle East that appear in the contracts.
