Barcelona Defeat Celta Vigo Even with Only 10 Players

DBasia.news – Barcelona continued their positive streak with a convincing win over Celta Vigo. The victory was obtained even though the Blaugrana played with 10 men for half the match.

Barcelona won 3-0 when they visited Balaidos, Friday (2/10/2020) in the morning WIB in the Spanish League continued. Goals were scored by Ansu Fati, an own Lucas Olaza, and from Sergi Roberto.

Despite winning with a convincing score, the match went far from easy for Barcelona. Because Ronald Koeman’s team had to play with 10 players since Clement Lenglet was red carded in the 42nd minute.

But losing one player with only one goal advantage did not weaken Barcelona’s fighting power. In fact, Lionel Messi et al were able to add two more goals and seal the victory along with a clean sheet record.

This is the second victory after beating Villarreal 4-0 at the Camp Nou last week. Sergi Roberto revealed that the atmosphere within the team today is different, even though the club has been hit by various issues in recent months.

He said the players were now more solid and persistent, as was evident from the match against Celta.

“The team is very motivated and today, playing with one person less, we answered the challenge. We all stayed together,” he said as quoted by SPORT.

“You can see how united we are. We showed it in the first game and again today.”

“We can’t go into matches like before. We work really hard in pre-season, in every training session, and you can see that in the games,” he added.

Messi, although not listed on the scoreboard, contributed to Barcelona’s second goal. His shot hit Olaza’s leg and turned into Celta’s goal.

Roberto believes Messi’s performance in this match should be enough to prove that the Argentine star remains very professional. It is known that he had argued with management on several occasions, even had time to try to move, then the most recent one had a dispute about the sale of Luis Suarez.

“Leo was very excited, he ran a lot and worked hard for the team tonight. It is important that he plays with such a passion,” said Roberto.

Barcelona are currently in fifth place in the Spanish League standings with six points from two matches. Getafe, Valencia, Real Madrid and Villarreal are all on seven points from a number of matches that vary with each other.