Barcelona 2021-22 started with the first pre-season friendly, facing, as it did last season, Nàstic de Tarragona, whom they thrashed 4-0 at the Johan Cruyff stadium in what was the first meeting with the public that could enjoy Ronald Koeman since he became a Barça coach. A sentenced victory, started and sentenced, in the second half, without first team players and with Rey Manaj, author of a hat trick, turned into the main protagonist.
The 24-year-old Albanian striker is supposedly living his last days at Barça, where he arrived in January 2020 to reinforce the subsidiary and without having officially made his debut in the first team, with which he barely enjoyed a announcement. The Barça club negotiates his transfer during this summer market while distributing his preseason between the first and second teams, showing, with his performance, an evident quality.
He opened the account and closed it with two more goals, one to his pleasure, finishing off an excellent center by Hiroki and the last one with a penalty to be the most outstanding footballer of an afternoon in which few conclusions could be drawn.
Barça presented an 11 with seven players from the first team (Neto, Dest, Umtiti, Piqué, Sergi Roberto, Pjanic and Riqui Puig) who were accompanied Balde on the left-handed side, Yusuf Demir inside, and Escobar Y Little Polo in attack. He highlighted the good work of Sergi Roberto acting indoors, the ease of combination already known by Riqui Puig, the good physical sensations that Umtiti showed and an excellent presentation of Yusuf Demir, the young Austrian who arrives on loan to the subsidiary and who completed a first half very promising.
With everything to rest it was reached without goals, converted Manu Garcia, Nàstic goalkeeper, in the great responsible for the result, saving Sergi Roberto two golden occasions and another Sergiño Dest, very deep in his band such as the young Balde on the left.
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The game was broken in the second half, although it started in the 38th minute, when Quintanilla was sent off, in a somewhat exaggerated way, for a tackle on Riqui Puig, arriving late at the crossroads and hitting the Barça squad, whom he did not see. .
With one less player, Nàstic had to play the entire second half and with a totally new team on the lawn, Barça had total and absolute dominance.
Mingo stood out in defense, the very young Gavi (16 years old) in the center of the field, the Japanese Hiroki at the end and, above all, Rey Manaj, author of 1-0 in an exceptional play and who added two more goals, the last penalty, to close the afternoon.
Beyond the names, he highlighted the bet on the 4-3-3 imposed without dissimulation by Ronald Koeman, with special prominence of the full-backs turned into support for the wingers, with a lot of intention to play diagonally, and the continuous movement of the ball , playing at the first touch.
Barça opened with a comfortable victory and with names to consider. Two especially with a future that is guessed different: Manaj who is looking for an exit and Demir who arrives to play in the subsidiary but gave a feeling of having options to become, who knows, the new Pedri.
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