Barcelona 1-0 Sevilla: Pedri’s goal put them in 2nd place

Pedri’s fantastic goal gave Barcelona a very important win 1-0 against Sevilla for the 30th La Liga game. The Catalans were superior but struggled to find the goal against the very good Yassin Bounou.

When they finally made it in the 2nd half, they kept the momentum and kept the lead until the end, climbing up to 2nd place on the scoreboard.

The spirit of the teams could be felt from the first minutes. Barcelona wanted to attack and Sevilla wanted to limit the ‘Blaugrana’ as the first concern and would then rely on the speed of Anthony Martial and Lucas Ocampos.

Pedri had a great day and was quite appetizing, Usman Dembele made crosses from the right and Yassin Bounu became the protagonist of the game. Sevilla combined with Jesούςs Navas and Eric Lamela had a…near chance, with the Argentine missing the ball and leaving the rest of the half to the Catalans.

In the 2nd half the picture of the game remained the same. Barcelona were on the gas, they even tried to set up, with Gerard Pique even having a crossbar. The Andalusians’ counterattacks didn’t produce the desired result and finally, in the 72nd minute, two excellent maneuvers by Pedri and a shot from outside the box made it 1-0.

Julen Lopetegui had already thrown Jesus Corona into the match, but then had to step up the attack with Youssef en Nesiri. The game got tougher, the players of both teams bumped into each other a few times and in the delays the visitors had a triple chance to score, but Marc Andre ter Stegen and the blocks of the Barcelona defenders kept to zero.

BARCELONA: Ter Stegen, Alves, Araύjo, Pique, Alba, Fr. De Jong (74′ Gavi), Busquets, Pedri, Dembele (90+1′ Niko), Obamayang (81′ Depay), Torres

SEVILLE: Bounu, Navas (78′ Montiel), Carlos, Kunde, Rekik, Rakitic, Goodell (78′ En Nesiri), Hordan, Lamela (67′ Corona), Martial (82′ Augustinson), Ocampos

The results of the 30th race

The LaLiga rankings

The program of the 31st game