A good Barça misses the victory against City in discount City (3-3)

The FC Barcelona and the Manchester City equalised in the friendly party in profit of the investigation against the Esclerósis Lateral Amiotrófica (ELA) promoted by Juan Carlos Unzué and his foundation. The meeting was entertained from beginning to end, with a lot of occasions in both areas in spite of the onces alternative ranged by Xavi Hernández and Pep Guardiola, the one who returned to the bench of the Spotify Camp Nou for the first time from October of 2016.

The first clear of the party were for the Barça. Aubameyang Was near to open the marker grieve in the minute 3, but was missing him little to hit of full a centre of Sergi Roberto. Two minutes later, Franck Kessié hit the balloon against the stick after taking advantage of a gap in the saga of the City. The occasion of the marfileño woke up to the visitors and Mahrez and Julián Álvarez began to create danger on the area blaugrana.

On the minute 21, the Argentinian forward took advantage of an error of Iñaki Crag to break the zero. To the goalkeeper culé escaped him a centre without too much danger of Sergio Gómez and the '19' sent the loose ball at the end of the network. However, the one of Alicante would redeem in the course of the party with several remarkable interventions to avoid a new fall of his arch.

The so much of Álvarez did not scare to the Barça and 'Auba' equalised the meeting in the 29', eight minutes after the so much of the City. A centre of Raphinha found the head of Busquets to enable to the gabonés, the one who defined of first with a volley imparable for the German goalkeeper Stefan Ortega. A goal with aroma to farewell. Both teams exchanged arrived of danger in the last chamber of hour of the first part, but the 1-1 kept until the rest.

Goal of Frenkie and fast answer of the City

After the rest, Xavi sent to Ansu Fati in place of Ferran Torres little participatory, whereas Pep entered three variants in defence. Álvarez was near of the doublet grieve to the 3 minutes of the complement, but a double cut across of Iñaki Crag sirivió for enmedar an error of Jules Koundé. To the central saw it to him, as it was to expect , lacking of rhythm, since only it had played in Joan Gamper.

In the 54' arrived the played regrettable of the party. To Kalvin Phillips went out him the shoulder in an infortunada action and in his place ingresó Rodri. Xavi ingresó to Gavi, Memphis Depay, Eric García and Alejandro Balde and the Dutch participated in the played of the second so much. Gavi Anticipated to Kevin Of Bruyne and yielded to Memphis, the one who enabled to his compatriot Frenkie to put the 2-1. In the following played, Palmer equalised for the 'cityzens' after a big played collective that culminated with assistance of Cancel.

Depay Added to the party goleadora

The '14', in wait of the resolution of his exit, annotated the 3-2 definite in the 79' taking advantage of a centre of Sergi Roberto, one of the best of the Barça. The side yielded to the Dutch, the one who finished to pleasure to give back the advantage to the venues. The changes mermaron the rhythm on the end and the most stood out of the closing was the entry of the medical assistance for Luke Mbete, after a hard hit in the head by a crash with Christensen.

In the 11th minute of added time, referee José Sánchez invented a penalty that Mahrez converted competently to establish the definitive equality. It was 3-3 at the Spotify Camp Nou in front of more than 92,000 fans who supported the charity cause. For Barça, the clash leaves good feelings ahead of the demanding first half of the season, being competitive against a powerful rival who went to the culé temple for victory.

Technical index card of the party: FC Barcelona 3-3 Manchester City

• FC Barcelona: Iñaki Crag (Aranu Tenas, min.80) ; Sergi Roberto (Dest, min. 80), Koundé (Christensen, min. 80), Hammered (Eric García, min 57), Jordi Alba (Balde, min. 57); Busquets (Pjanic, min. 80), Frenkie of Jong (Abde, min.72), Kessié (Gavi, min. 57); Raphinha (Abde, min. 72), Aubameyang (Depay, min.57), Ferran (Ansu, min. 46)
• Manchester City: Ortega; Lewis (Joao Cancel, min. 46), Walker (Stones, min. 46), Rúben Days (Mbete, min. 64), Sergio Gómez (Wilson, min. 46) ; Phillips (Rodri, min. 57), Palmer, Bernardo Silva; Mahrez, Álvarez (Haaland, min. 72) and Foden (Gundogan, min. 64)
• Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez
• Incidences: charitable Party to raise funds for the investigation of the ELA
• Goals of the party: 0-1, Julián Álvarez (min. 21); 1-1, Aubameyang (min. 28); 2-1, Frenkie of Jong (min. 66); 2-2, Cole Plamer, min. 70); 3-2, Memphis Depay, min. 79; 3-3, Mahrez, (min. 90+11)