Barcelona won 5-1 on Mallorca on Tuesday (6th) in Son Moix, in a match of the 19th day of the La Liga advanced by the Super Cup of Spain, ending a bad streak of three matches without winning in the championship.
With comings and goings, occasions for both sides and many outside of the local team’s games, Bara took the triumph thanks to so many of Ferran Torres (12), Brazilian Raphinha (56 of penalty, 74), the Dutch Frenkie De Jong (79) and Pau Victor (84), while the Kosovar Vedat Muriqi (43) scored for the Berliners.
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The blue team returned to its dynamics of defending the limit. In one of them, goalkeeper Inaki Pena pulled out a saving hand after standing for only Antonio Sanchez in the 7th minute, but the player departed from an illegal action.
Hansi Flick’s men pressed from high and controlled possession in the first bars to a flagrant rival defensive error, which Ferran Torres took advantage of to climb the first in the electronics.
Colombian Johan Mojica cleared a ball that bounced in Slovak Martin Vlajent and ended up on Ferran’s foot, who finished the goal. Even his shot came crying after sneaking between the legs of archer Leo Roman.
Then attacker Lamine Yamal forgave when he hit a scratch ball inside the area to Raphinha’s pass that went out in the 20th game.
The Azulgrana seemed to have regained the effectiveness lost in the last few days and the tactical trap of the out-of-play. But in the end, Mallorca found the tie.
Initially, Samu Costa started believing he was on the sidelines of the law and stopped watching Pablo Maffeo get to his side. The side marched towards goalkeeper Inaki Pena and ended up giving away the spherical to the Kosovar Vedat Muriqi, which he scored with a mouthpiece.
Instantly before the end of the second half, Roman avoided the second both after Raphinha stood alone in front of the local archer and his shot was diverted.
Ten minutes after the resumption, an active Lamine Yamal ended up knocked down by Mojica inside the area, a penalty that transformed Raphinha with a powerful finish.
Yamal was the protagonist in the others as well. First, he delivered an assist with the outside from the right to Raphinha, who reached the second stick to finish and climb the third.
I’m living my best time, but I don’t want to stop there. I want to do much more for this shield. It’s a club for which I have enormous affection. “Everything I can give inside the field, I’ll give it,” the Brazilian told the Movistar network.
We knew the importance of beating again. In the last three games, something has been missing. “Today (Tuesday) we were fine, it was not the best of our games but winning was the most important thing,” he continued.
The next one occurred on a counterattack after a masterful pass from Yamal, which De Jong finished taking advantage of a rejection from Mateu. To put the hand, Yamal starred in another move that Pau Victor finished to pleasure.
With this victory, the leader Barcelona (37 points) distances himself four points from Real Madrid, his top chaser, who has two fewer games and who will play on Wednesday against the fourth ranked Athletic Club.