The Xavi Pascual’s Barça He faced this game with some rotations in the team and knowing that he had already secured the first place in his respective group. A game in which Pascual commented, he was not going to risk his players getting injured. So he wants to save them for the round of 16. The Spanish team achieved a suffered victory against a hard Nantes what with Valero Rivero he almost managed to remove the undefeated from the Catalans.
Pascual’s men reached 24 points after winning the twelve games they have played in this 2020/21 Champions League. But the meeting was not a formality for the Spaniards, who in Dika Mem found the scoring path to sentence the victory. The first half was a rough one, where the French moved away several times from the Barça and not to a goal. But on several occasions they maintained the advantage of three to four goals.
Valero Rivero, Nantes player, was wreaking havoc with the Blaugrana defense. In fact, he ended the match scoring 10 goals. The first 30 minutes were all of the Gauls who sentenced the break 14-17 in favor against a very dull and unwilling Barça. Mem and Ludovic Fabregas found the net in the first round although it would be of little use against the French dominance.
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The second half had a much better start for Pascual’s men, who with a great partial were even up by one or two goals on the scoreboard. Mem would attack the network aggressively to get away 25-23 in favor of the blaugranas. That they were placed at the top of the score for the first time since they scored 2-1 in the first minutes of the match.
Blaz Janc and Luka Cindric they would become great in the final stretch of the meeting. A time when the game was becoming difficult for Barça, since the visit had tied the match again. But Janc’s goals in the last four minutes defined the victoria for the local team.
DATASHEET
Barça (30): Möller; Áleix Gómez (5.1p), Mem (5), Fábregas (3), Petrus, Raúl Entrerríos (1), Ariño (5) -starting seven-; Gonzalo Pérez (ps); Dolenec (2), Cindric (3), Janc (2), Sorhaindo, Lángaro (4), Makuk, Frade and Álex Pascual.
Nantes (29): Nielsen; Milic, Gurbindo (1), Pechmalbec (2), Minne (2), Cavalcanti (4), Valero Rivera (9.5p), -starting seven-; Lazarov (3), Damatrin (1), Figueras (2), Briet (1), Monar (3), Ovnicek and Nyokas (1).
Referees:Slave Nikolov (MKD) and Gjorgji Nachevski (MKD). Exclusions: Lángaro (m.4), Frade (m.13), Janc (m.29) for Barça and Pechmalbec (m.11), Figueras (m.12), Cavalcanti (m.50) for Nantes.
Partial: 2-3, 4-7, 8-9, 10-10, 12-14, 14-17 (rest), 17-20, 22-21, 23-22, 26-25, 27-27 and 30-29 (final).
Stadium: Palau Blaugrana.
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