Pedri leads the reaction – AS.com

Barcelona reacted in the Champions League thanks to a sublime Pedri, who from the beginning took control of the match against Brest and led his team with insulting authority. Only the impetus of Brest, a team that defends tooth and nail, prevented a Blaugrana festival. Even so, Barça won 3-0 against the big surprise of the competition, placing second in the Champions League standings on the night when, under the direction of Pedri, Lewandowski continued scoring with two goals (he already has 22 goals this season) and Olmo found the net again. After two poorly plotted corners, Barça returns to the road.

Hansi Flick, after marking the team after the draw in Vigo, only made one change to his starting lineup. But it was not the change that everyone expected, which was to remove Gerard Martín from the left back. Flick did not want to sacrifice the lamb and continued to give him confidence, but instead he brought in Fermín to give Gavi a rest, who is still filming. Gerard Martín took advantage of the opportunity. Point for Flick.

Whether because of the fight, because of the rival or for whatever it was, Barcelona’s staging was already more reminiscent of the team at the beginning of the season than of the last few days. With an omnipresent Pedri and a Raphinha who was as skilled at accelerating the attack as he was at giving pause. Barcelona played a very good first half, but Brest showed that it is a tough nougat. The French can be dominated, but they are irreducible like Gosciny and Uderzo. They lack the magic potion and are not afraid of the sky falling on their heads. They are brave as if they had defended Gergovia. Winning a duel against these people was an almost impossible mission..

But because they were so brutal and spirited, the Gauls rushed forward. Especially their goalkeeper Bizot, who is Dutch but could have been born in the same port of Brest. The goalkeeper came out like an abanto to a ball that Pedri had hung in the heart of the area for Lewandowski to control, who found himself run over by the rival goalkeeper. A penalty like a house.

The Polish forward himself, executing his particular crane jump, made it 1-0 after 10 minutes. It seemed that the difficult part was done. But the Gaul-Bretons always resisted the invader. They did not give up a ball for lost, they won the majority of duels and managed to bother the Barcelona forwards enough so that the Barcelona fans’ scoring options did not increase the score. Special mention in this field to Raphinha for creating them and to Fermín for trying to finish them. The Andalusian had the goal of tranquility in his hand twice, but failed in the final execution. The Bretons made it clear that they were going to be a tough nut to crack.

Barcelona continued to break stones in front of the Breton menhir, which did not allow itself to be carved. Fermín continued to be the team’s stiletto from the second line and ran into the rival goalkeeper, like Olmo, who was becoming more refined after a very rude first half. His first attempt was taken by Chardonet on the line with a shot from the Catalan that was going for goal, but the next time, Dani controlled the ball after a ride by a reborn Gerard Martín to make it 2-0.

At Barça, Flick started with the rotations and reappeared Balde, who was the author of the play that earned Barça’s third goal, Lewandowski’s second of the night.

Pablo Torre also appeared, forgiving a goal after stealing a ball from the central defender and De Jong had his minutes. He entered with whistles, but left to the general happiness.

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