He FC Barcelona has achieved a hard-fought victory against the Athletic Club in the League thanks to a goal from Robert Lewandowski in the final part of the match (2-1).
The blue and red team, which has played again this Saturday a good match on the second day of the championship, has given better news on the field than in the offices, after Dani Olmo could not be registered yet due to the club’s financial problems.
Barça came out with determination and, with the only novelty of the Pedri’s return to the starting elevendominated from the first few minutes, although it took a while to create dangerous opportunities.
It was past the halfway point of the first half when Lamine Yamal opened the scoring with a trademark goal. The Barça player, always on the offensive, got hold of a rebound on the edge of the box, looked for the gap and shot, with the luck that the ball hit a defender and left goalkeeper Álex Padilla, who was in the starting eleven again due to injuries to his teammates, off balance.
Williams – Yamal reunion
Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams during the league match between Barça and Athletic. AFP
Athletic reacted and looked more for its most incisive player, Iñaki Williams, who was reunited with Yamal after having dazzled alongside him at the last Euro Cup.
In the final stretch of the first half, with a resource with a heel, Williams found Alex Berenguer inside the area and this forced a penalty, VAR by means ofdue to the action of Pau Cubarsí, who prevented him from finishing. Ohian Sancet converted the maximum penalty to equalize before the break (which came after a long extension of almost seven minutes).
In the second part, Hansi Flick’s team regained their dominance Ernesto Valverde’s men and for the second time in the match Robert Lewandowski crashed against the post. Even clearer was the chance that the striker had midway through this period and which Padilla thwarted with great reflexes.
But Lewandowski scored on the fourth attempt. Raphinha gave a great pass to Pedri and the rejected shot from the Canary Islander fell to the Pole to score his goal third goal in two league games.
With this result, Barcelona has six points out of a possible six, while Bilbao is left with just one.
