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Barça also terrifies in Europe. After a nap second half in the Barcelona derby last weekend, the Blaugrana team They massacred Estrella Roja 2-5 at the Little Maracaná, which despite the environmental pressure ended up surrendering to the Blaugrana team after a brutal second half in which the culé team ended up playing with eight players trained in-house plus Pau Víctor scored a goal and rose to sixth position in the Champions League.

Flick came out in Belgrade with three changes compared to the game against Espanyol. Koundé's entry was a foregone conclusion and this time he decided to leave Balde on the bench to give minutes to Gerard Martín, just as he did with Hèctor Fort at the weekend. AND In the center of the field, where the German coach has more to choose from than in any other area, De Jong was appreciated as a starter to accompany Pedri and Casadó. Olmo stayed on the starting bench and so Pedri could go back to playing where he likes, closer to the rival area. Barça opted for a controlled match, with three pure midfielders and no starting midfielder. A tactic to try to tame the Serbs, who, spurred on by their public, could go into overdrive.

From the start, the plan went perfect and Barcelona had absolute control of the game in attack and defense, where four minutes into the game Elsnick already knew what it was like to score against Barcelona and have it disallowed for offside. But then it would be seen that the tactics of the advanced defense, with Gerard Martin, leaves much to be desired.

Before the first quarter of an hour of the gamea Raphinha free kick was finished off perfectly by Iñigo Martínez who broke the Serbians' offside attempt with the ease that made them fall into their area.

The match was in the hands of Barcelona after 0-1. Raphinha, full of morale, took a direct corner that hit the post and minutes later, in too much of a hurry he failed a face-to-face with the local goalkeeper after a brilliant pass (another) from Lamine.

But what we said before about the defensive imbalances on the left ended up paying off. between what De Jong was afraid of all the divided balls and that Gerard Martín was not aware of the offside, Red Star equalized in the 27th minute.

With the Little Maracaná roaring and believing in the comeback, Barcelona knew through Casadó, Lamine, Pedri and Raphinha to regain control of the match. Precisely, a play between these four led to a shot against the post by the Brazilian, the second of the night, which Lewandowski, absent until that moment, was ready to hunt down and score 1-2 before the break..

The resumption of the match was a blaugrana festival, which in a sublime quarter of an hour closed the match in a shocking exercise of authority. Lewandowski missed the third in an incredible way after an assist from Pedri, but he retaliated three minutes later after a huge play by Barça that Lamine Yamal started and that ended with Koundé giving the goal to Lewandowski, who only had to push her. Two minutes later, with Koundé disheveled, the Frenchman assisted Raphinha, who scored close to the post from the edge of the box. 1-4 and Raphinha and Pedri to rest and Olmo and Fermín to the stage. This change was joined by Sergi Domínguez for Cubarsí, whose heels were stuck in Spajic's face, causing a spectacular wound. That didn't stop Barça, much less Koundé, who gave his third assist in half an hour. This time to Fermín to score the fifth.

With a team made up almost exclusively of local people (only Koundé and Iñigo Martínez had not played in the club's lower teams) Barça emerged victorious from Belgrade despite Milson's goal, but Barça was a scary hammer.

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