Brutal masterpiece that Barça provided to the fans who went up to Montjuïc to welcome the Cup matches. The Barça team, with an absolutely stratospheric Lamine Yamal, goes with the inertia of its cruising speed after its overwhelming victory in the Super Cup against Real Madrid, by a resounding 5-2. The title was presented to the fans, with Betis leading the way, and the Barça team continued the collective pleasure it generated from Arabia. They defeated the green and white 5-1, with goals from Gavi, Koundé, Raphinha, Lamine Yamal and Ferran, and is literally four games away from the second title of the season. Vitor Roque returned and scored, from a penalty caused by Rodríguez, the goal of Betic honor.
OAnother Barça has returned after the Christmas holidays. Against Atlético we already saw a great choral game from Flick’s team, but with specific errors that were paid dearly. On the way back, Flick’s team is in mode roller. Five goals, another two disallowed and a shot off the post certified the recital, with the masterful direction by Pedri and overwhelming fantasy by Lamine Yamal.
FC Barcelona – Real Betis: The highlights of the match
PHOTOS: Pep Morata and Pere Puntí (MD) / AGENCIES
TAll of Barcelona moved in harmony, with Dani Olmo’s placement as a ‘false’ nine as key piece of a gear in which mobility ruled and in which pressure was applied in attack, balls were recovered and the calculated, usual risks were taken with the space behind the defensive line, which Betis tried to exploit, to find intense folds or, failing that, an inspired Iñaki Peña.
IEven Frenkie de Jong, the incumbent taking Casadó’s place, started some of the many applauses with which the numerous fans who braved the cold in Montjuïc, rewarded the Barça recital in the first cup event in Montjuïc.
Frenkie headed a series of rotations Regarding the Super Cup: one per line, in addition to the obligatory ones, of Iñigo due to injury and Szczesny due to suspension, replaced by Araujo and Peña, respectively. In defense, Gerard Martín played for Balde; in the middle, the Dutch by Casadó; and above, Lewandowski rotated so that Olmo occupied that false ‘nine’ positiona location that completely confused the Betic centre-backs, who were hunting shadows all night.
AIt only took three minutes for the valuable forward to show his qualities in that position, which was not at all strange for him, by enabling Gavi to, coming from behind, control with his right and finish on goal with his left. Barça came out with the inertia of their Arab exhibition and put pressure on the Betic team that forced Merta Vieites to reject a shot from Olmo, who also shot high shortly after on another good opportunity.
RRegarding Betis, he tried not to lower his arms despite the Barça gale and despite the cold goal, he showed his head in some counterattacks from the left that ended in Juanmi’s attempts being offside. Barça’s high pressure It was brutal, it was about to force fatal errors from the goalkeeper and Betis was saved again by a shot against Olmo’s post and a shot by Raphinha that was denied by the goal.
RAphinha failed alone against the goal after receiving from Lamine Yamal, tireless with dribbling, technical details and giving passes. And, almost immediately afterwards, another delight from Pedri in a filtered pass to Lamine Yamal, who sent a lethal assist for the rise of Koundé, who She sported ‘Pippi Longstocking’ braids and exhibited superpowers comparable to those of the popular television ‘boomer’ girl of the seventies in a powerful first shot, coming from behind and dismantling her counterpart.
A despite the Barcelona recitalBetis saw how Peña prevented their goal, already in the stoppage of the first half, in an action between Jesús Rodríguez and Isco, their most clairvoyant players, with a final shot by Vitor Roque to which Peña responded with a save, just before a microscopic offside another great goal from Koundé was invalidated, with another stratospheric shot after receiving from Lamine Yamal, but with the tip of the toe of ‘Super-Pippi”s boot advanced by a micron.
Dfter Koundé’s great goal disallowed, another, no less spectacular, goal from Lamine Yamal was disallowed, with masterful pass from Frenkie. They had to rewind almost a minute of play to find an offside on a pass so they could cancel it. And that gave a little more fuel to the beast, which in the next play piloted a huge transition, with driving, dribbling and final passing, although he needed themto Raphinha, who scored the third.
AThe festival did not even lack a goal from ‘Tiburón’ Ferran, with a goal in his first action from a pass from Olmo. And, as a rubric, Lamine Yamal achieved fifthhis goal, after the annulment of the previous one, subtly finish a good pass from Fermín. Vitor Roque, from a penalty (maximum penalty on Rodríguez with which Koundé put the shadow to a great performance), made it 5-1.
TECHNICAL SHEET
FC BARCELONA: Peña (3); Koundé (3), Cubarsí (3), Araujo (3) (Eric (), 64′), Gerard Martín (2); Gavi (3) (Pau Víctor (), 72′), Frenkie de Jong (3), Pedri (4) (Fermín (), 72′); Lamine Yamal (4) (Pablo Torre (), 77′), Olmo (3), Raphinha (2) (Ferran (), 64′)
REAL BETIS: Fran Vieites (0); Ruibal (sc) (Sabaly (1), 21′) Bartra (1) (Llorente (1), 46′), Nathan (0), Perraud (0); Johnny (1), Altimira (1) (Flores (1), 46′); Jesus Rodriguez (2), Isco (1) (Losado (1), 64′), Juanmi (1) (Fornals (1), 64′); Vitor Roque (1)
GOALS: 1-0, Gavi, 3′; 2-0, Koundé, 27′; 3-0, Raphinha, 59′; 4-0, Ferran, 67′; 5-0, Lamine Yamal, 75′; 5-1, Vitor Roque, pen. 84′
ARBITRATOR: José María Sánchez Martínez (0), Andalusian Committee. Cards to Bartra (42′), Raphinha (51′), Gavi (63′), Flores (86′)
ESTADIO: Olympic Lluís Companys de Montjuïc. 46,019 spectators
