The Barcelona fans displaced to Germany turned flares when the players went out to the pitch. Deplorable action that makes more understandable why President Joan Laporta decided to end the animation stand. It could very well be that UEFA imposed sanctions … to the club because of these events, such as preventing the entry of fans into the next European displacement. Gerard Martín replaced Balde, injured on Saturday in a minor match, low audience, less business and no show at a crucial time of the season. Elite football has to take itself more seriously.
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B. Dortmund:
Kobel; Süle, Anton, Bensebaini; Couto (Brandt, Min.77), Gross, Nmecha (Reyna, Min.64), Svensson; Beier (Duranville, Min.65), Guirassy and Adeyemi (Gittens, Min.77). -
Barcelona:
Szczesny; Koundé, Cubarsí, Araujo, Gerard Martín; Gavi (Pedri, Min.59), by Jong; Lamine Yamal (Ferran Torres, min.70), Fermín (Eric Garcia, min.70), Raphinha; and Lewandowski (Olmo, min. 86). -
Goals:
1-0. Min.11, Guirassy (P). 2-0. Min.49, Guirassy. 2-1. Min.54, Bensebaini (PP). 3-1. Min.76, Guirassy. -
Referee:
Maurizio Mariani (Ita). He admonished Nmecha at Borussia Dortmund and Jong in FC Barcelona.
Barça played disconnect – blue and grana camiseta and white pants – to avoid chromatic coincidence with the local underwear. Party that no incentive was supposed, no complication: because of the outcome of the first leg, for the great moment of Barcelona and because of how the Germans are, who however they began by biting, they were already marking in the first five minutes. Chaos in the culé rear was neutralized by the clumsiness of the opposite attackers until Tec He went wrong and afternoon and took Gross ahead. Guirassy transformed the clear penalty to the clear penalty.
Flick’s were as stunned, Lamine Yamal very inaccurate in the attack actions he led. But the Germans were too bad to think about great deeds even if they had marked soon and the second did not seem distant. Despite its youth and disdaining this Barça has shown that trusting its talent and its spirit is always appropriate to predict the result. There was no light on the team, but the feeling that the offices could refine at any moment. Borussia gradually won Barcelona at the same time in defense and shyly elongated her attacks.
The game became boring even for the Germans, although the fans continued to encourage, outside the circumstances. Flick was impatient in the band, but more because some individual details prevented the effective activation of his team that because he really saw the semifinals danger. He got very angry with Fermín for a failed occasion. The midfielder was lucky that the play was canceled offside. Raphinha was not fine either, an obvious arrival failed because of his bad technical gesture, as if he were not concentrated.
Those who had to make a difference did not make it and that always harms a team like Barça that, despite the illusion it generates, is not left over. In the line of what was seen against Betis and Leganés, the minutes passed without any grace, but also without any alarm. The opponent was so loose, and it cost him so much to do something with face and eyes, that it was implantable that he could do it the four times he needed to overcome the tie.
Barça failed to feel comfortable at any time of the first part, although he did not get anguished or dramatic either. For the first conclusion it is not necessary to be a great observer: Barça without Pedri is not the same. Then you have to say that Gerard Martín very well and very bad, lousy, Araujoof which the team would have to do without even before selling it. And in the background, tiredness. It is not that this team has suddenly become bad, but that it accuses the fatigue of many games played at a great level, which is undoubtedly an excuse but an explanation of some imbalances in the continuity of the game.
The second part began with the second local goal, which might seem that he created a difficult time in Barça but the Germans – who are in this that are geniuses – took care of their hopes to defraud their hopes marking a Gol in own door that reduced any epic of the comeback. That Barça does not go through its best moment of play does not mean that Borussia is even remotely close to being able to leave it out of the Champions League. To end up scareling the ghosts, Flick gave Pedri half an hour, which replaced Gavi. Tec responded before and after the second German goal with high -merit stops with which the rude action of the initial penalty was forgiven.
Barça was finding spaces in attack – like, and administered them with little brilliance – but the Dortmund gave the same what he found because the same players were responsible for spoiling him. Eric and Ferran gave Fermín and Lamine Yamal, who sat on the bench doing as not with his head, disappointed and with reason for his particular performance.
The Germans marked the third by the gift of a Araujo Terrible and Barça became nervous although for no reason, because it was too superior to have problems. Olmo entered Lewandowski. The tie was not in danger but Barça was trembled too much in the first of the decisive matches of this season. Before a more entity rival, I would have had to regret irreparable damage. The warning was serious: dreaming in titles is fine but to get them something else is needed to dream them.
