Ronald Koeman, Barcelona’s coach, was suspended in the stands when the crisis team fell against top rival Atletico Madrid. And it would be clear that the family is really the worst.
After 20 minutes, Atletico Madrid took the lead. It was former Barcelona player Luis Suarez, who was forced out of the club last summer, who played Thomas Lemar to the first goal. Lemar was able to push into the penalty area and place the ball in goal.
Shortly afterwards, Suarez himself had an open position, where the ball went just outside the post. But he would also be a goal scorer. At his next position, which was similar to the first where he came himself towards the goalkeeper, he would not miss. This time it was instead Lemar who assisted Suarez. Out of respect for his former employer, Suarez chose to barely celebrate the goal, but still sent a cock to Koeman in the stands. In his calm celebration, he gestured a phone to his ear and looked up at the grandstand.
It referred to the fact that Suarez was told that he did not have a place in Barcelona, via a call from Koeman.
“Koeman called me and told me I was not part of his plans,” the Uruguayan said at the time.
Desperately, Bar triedça then found a goal and after just over an hour, the super talent Ansu Fati replaced. It is the 18-year-old’s second appearance since the knee injury that kept him away from games for ten months.
But despite forcing, they did not get a hole in Atleti. It places Barcelona in ninth place after seven rounds played in La Liga. Atletico Madrid, on the other hand, step up in the table, and are now on the same points as city rival Real Madrid in the league lead.
Atletico Madrid: Oblak – Savis, Gimenez, Mermoso – Llorente, De Paul, Koke, Lemar, Carrasco – Suarez, Felix
Barcelona: ter Stegen – Minqueza, Pique, Araujo, Dest – Gonzalez, Busquets, De Jong – Gavi, Depay, Coutinho
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