Ramon de Carranza Stadium in Cadiz was the place where FC Barcelona played a fresh La Liga match. We have the player ratings.
FC Barcelona paid a visit to Cadiz while looking to get back in the fight for La Liga. Manager Ronald Koeman requested his players to win every single game until the end of 2020 if they wanted to have a shot to fight for the title. Today’s match was allegedly an easy task against modest Cadiz. But the Blaugrana are part of the Spanish football decadence, a new dark age led by them and Real Madrid. Poor offensive football and bad results from both squads that we will likely witness throughout the entire season. During tonight’s game in Cadiz, the Blaugrana started off on the wrong foot due to the first of two defensive mistakes. Rookie Mingueza scored an own goal after a corner kick early in the game. Much like it has been throughout the season, FC Barcelona had to do an uphill battle.
Negredo seals the win for Cadiz.
The most important moments of the match came during the second half through another own goal and another defensive mistake. Barcelona equalized the game after Jordi Alba’s cross was deviated by Alcala. But the Catalan club made one of the most incredible defensive mistakes of the season through Lenglet and Ter Stegen.
Alvaro Negredo had just got on the pitch when this happened and allowed him to score the winning goal. Props to both him and goalkeeper Ledesma for his many interventions throughout the match. This makes Barcelona get their fourth defeat of the season compared to the six losses they suffered throughout the entire previous campaign. Today, Messi was denied by the Cadiz goalkeeper several times. Pele’s record will have to wait.
Player ratings
Cadiz: Ledesma (9), Carcelen (8), Lopez (7), Jimenez (7), Espino (8), Alex (7), Jonsson (7), Bodiger (8), Izquierdo (8), Gimenez (6), Perea (6).
Bench: Alcala (7), Negredo (8), Fernandez (6), Adekanye (6), Alejo (7).
FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen (3), Alba (7), Lenglet (3), Mingueza (4), Dest (6), De Jong (5), Busquets (5), Coutinho (6), Messi (6), Griezmann (5), Braithwaite (4).
Bench: Dembele (6), Pedri (6), Trincao (5), Pjanic (5).
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