Led by its European champion Dani Olmo, author of a double, FC Barcelona outclassed its neighbor Espanyol (3-1) on Sunday November 3 and consolidated its leadership position during the 12e La Liga day marked by numerous tributes to the victims of the deadly floods in the country.
For his first start since his thigh injury in mid-September, the Barcelona summer recruit launched his team perfectly from the 12e minute by cutting an outside ball from the sublime foot of Catalan prodigy Lamine Yamal (1-0), before concretizing the Blaugrana domination with a beautiful strike from the edge of the area (31′, 3-0).
Eleventh victory in eleven days
The Brazilian Raphinha, author of an exceptional start to the season, had doubled the lead a few minutes earlier on a serve from young Marc Casado (23′, 2-0), scoring his fifth goal in three matches, the seventh in La Liga.
With a three-goal lead at the break, Hansi Flick’s men relaxed a little and ended up seeing their modest neighbor come back to the score after two goals disallowed for offside (28′, 58′) on a nice collective action concluded by the Spanish scorer Javi Puado (63′, 3-1).
Barça (1is33 points), whose eleventh victory in eleven days, temporarily takes a nine-point lead over its great rival Real Madrid (2′, 24 points), whose meeting in Valencia was postponed due to flooding murders that hit the region this week.
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The two teams observed a minute of silence before the match in tribute to the victims of this tragedy which has already caused 217 deaths in the east of the country and moved the whole world, and the Catalan club announced that it would auction the jerseys of its players to raise funds for disaster victims.
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