The FC Barcelona remained without gunpowder in front of the Manchester United (1-3)
The FC Barcelona remained without gunpowder in front of the Manchester United (1-3)
Published:26/07/2015 - 00:00h
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The FC Barcelona contested and lost the second party of the pre-season 2015-16 in Levi's Stadium against the Manchester United. The ones of Luis Enrique dominated the meeting in the first-half in spite of the goal of Rooney and had of occasions, but was missing puntería
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The launching of fault to the stick of Luis Suárez in the minute 3 seemed to presage a meeting in which the gunpowder of the FC Barcelona in attack would go back to solve the tackled and intentonas of the Manchester United, but did not go like this. The ones of Luis Enrique found on the lawn of Levi's Stadium -a dry grass and maltrecha, by the way- to a team of a lot of greater entity that Los Angeles Galaxy, to the that had been able to win of affordable way and without efforts three days before.
The "network devils" of Louis Go Gaal went out very very planted on the terrain of game and, in spite of suffering a double fright in the first ten minutes with the quoted shot of Luis Suárez and a clear one against one wasted by Sergi Roberto, achieved to hamper the fluidity of pass of the FC Barcelona with an intense pressure in the centre of the field.
A goal of Wayne Rooney of head to the exit of a corner in the minute 7, that had to be cancelled by previous push of the English forward to Adriano, propició that the Manchester United decided replegarse something further back with the 0-1 in the marker and contribute more men to the pressure in the centre of the field, doing even more difficult that Sergi Roberto, Iniesta and Busquets could connect with the men of attack and especially with a Suárez that it was desquiciándose with the step of the minutes.
Even so, and in spite of that the players of the FC Barcelona were too static in the half field and the zone of three chambers, shortly before that it finished the first part Luis Suárez had of another clear occasion when receiving a balloon in the frontal of the area, give the half turn and shoot with the left leg again to the stick, the best ally of David of Gea in the first act.
The bad afternoon for the Uruguayan forward would not finish here. In the minute 60 achieved to annotate a legal goal, but was cancelled unfairly by the referee when seeing the assistant an offside that it did not exist, since Shaw enabled him position of the ariete Barcelona. They were happening the minutes in the second half and, after a carousel of changes of Louis Go Gaal in which it varied all the alignment, the FC Barcelona saw surprised with a goal of counterattack of Lingard after a played something unlucky for the Barça, that did not attain replegarse quickly in the area and cover all the gaps.
Ready to arrive to the minute 70 Munir The Haddadi finished of head a balloon that went back to stamp in the stick of Of Gea, the third of the afternoon in Levi's Stadium for the Barça. Like this the things and with the 0-2 in the marker, Luis Enrique changed to until four players of a tacada and looked for to endow of freshness to the team. They had occasions for the two groups from then like a far shot of Gerard Gumbau or one without too much power of Ivan Rakitic, but the case is that FC Barcelona was not at all fine of face to goal.
In the last compasses of the meeting, however, Rafinha Alcántara attained to transform the goal of the honour for the FC Barcelona connecting a beautiful and placed volley that coló by the right stick of Of Gea. Some seconds later, in spite of everything, Adnan Januzaj took advantage of a massive distraction of the Barça in defence to surpass in counterattack to Jordi Masip with a shot raso, planting in the marker the definite 1-3 with which finished the meeting.
Technical index card of the Barcelona vs Manchester United 1-3
Goals of the party: Rooney, 7'; Lingard, 64'; Rafinha, 89'; Januzaj, 90'.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo.
Incidences: Any.
Next party: Chelsea vs FC Barcelona (International Champions Cup 2015 J3)
