The FC Barcelona, celebrating one of the goals in The Madrigal

VILLARREAL 2-2 FC BARCELONA

The Barça wastes an advantage of gold, but is even more leader (2-2)

Published:20/03/2016 - 15:30h

Updated:20/03/2016 - 18:22h

The FC Barcelona wasted an advantage that could have served to sentence definitively the League BBVA 2015-16 after the defeat the past Saturday of the Athletic. In spite of this, the tie serves to the ones of Luis Enrique to be even more leaders

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Luis Enrique, in spite of being conscious that Luis Suárez would lose the Classical of League BBVA against the Real Madrid in the Camp Nou if it saw the yellow cardboard, decided to range to the Uruguayan forward in The Madrigal, giving to the party against the Villarreal the importance that deserved. And it is that the Barça did not confront this Sunday against a rival any one -neither much less-, but against one of the best teams of the competition like venue. The "yellow submarine" showed soon his bravura and courage against the best team of the moment, starring the first dangerous occasion of the party in the minute 2. Bakambu Surpassed without too many problems to Sergi Roberto, progressing by the left band and taking out of the sleeve a centre that was finished by Denis Suárez, touching the ball to the stick and strolling slightly by the line of goal until Claudio Bravo achieved to cut across it. It was also the first played controversy of the meeting, since in the action Jordi Alba received a hard hit of backs with an opponent that the referee, Sánchez Martínez, decided not sanctioning with fault in attack in spite of the protests culés.

Surpassed the initial fright, the FC Barcelona began to presionar up and to advance slightly the line of the defence, with the aim to move away the danger of his own area given the dangerousness of Bakambu, Soldered and Denis Suárez in the flank of attack of the Villarreal, very active during the first minutes of game. In the minute 6 of party, Claudio Bravo went back to save a new opportunity of the ariete Congolese, that took out a finish complicated almost without angle without surprising to the put Chilean, very planted to frighten off the danger once again. The ones of Marcelino García Toral were offering a direct and vertical game, in addition to effective. After the two first clear occasions, the FC Barcelona decided to put pause to the meeting and begin to accumulate long possessions in the centre of the field and the zone of three chambers of field, conscious that during the first minutes practically all had been approximations to the contrary area by part of the two teams.

The Barça pause the party and Rakitic premières the marker

With the step of the time, the trident formed by Neymar Jr, Leo Messi and Luis Suárez began to carburar taking advantage of the spaces that left backwards the Villarreal, although the true is that the intentonas of counterattack of the "MSN" neither arrived to good port during the first chamber of hour of party, being very attentive the central Eric Bailly and Víctor Ruiz to the hour to cushion the small avalanches of the FC Barcelona. Ivan Rakitic tested luck from out of the area with a shot that left diverted, but further of this to the Barça cost him elaborate game of combinations because of the intensity of the local group. Leo Messi went back to test it also from out of the area, but his shot went slightly above the goal of Asenjo. The Villarreal was tuteando to the Barcelona without fear and accumulated the most stood out opportunities of goal, to the time that Burn Turan and Gerard Hammered saw two yellow cardboards the first by a hard entrance and the second by a doubtful hand. The party, in any case, went decanting little by little to the Barcelona edict to measure that Neymar, Messi and Rakitic hinder in contact with the balloon.

It was predictable, besides, that the Villarreal could not hold the intense competitive rhythm during too many minutes followed, taking into account the effort that made the Valencians in UEFA Europe League the past Thursday in the turn of eighth against the Bayer Leverkusen. From here that, fortunately for the interests culés, the FC Barcelona was the team that premièred the marker in the minute 20. A fault to the edge of the area of the Villarreal, something far, served so that Leo Messi centred the balloon to the area and Sergio Asenjo starred a bad exit, leaving the balloon without owner. Luis Suárez commanded it for backwards and Rakitic collected the assistance, sending the spherical at the end of the goal with a shot raso and powerful. The Barça had put by in front in the marker, but no thus amainó the good game of the Villarreal. In the minute 23 arrived the controversy of the party. Gerard Hammered, that with a yellow went to the flat to try brake a counterattack of Denis Suárez, rebañó the balloon with the arm in front of the passivity of the judge of line, that did not see at all and allowed that the central culé went out benefited of the played, without receiving what would have been a second yellow.

Neymar Sentences with a penalti to the Panenka

The FC Barcelona had luck in said action and Marcelino went finally the one who left expelled for protesting it, but all this did not distract to any of the two teams neither enturbió the good game seen until the moment. Claudio Bravo had to go out of his area to abort a new counterattack of Bakambu, solving the situation complicated for the Barça. The first half hour of party had passed in hardly a sigh, but the 0-1 of these moments put to the Barcelona practically like virtual champion of League BBVA, with the culés very motivated in achieving the triumph to finish to sentence the competition of the regularity. Burn Turan was too dense in the combinations and to the hour of desmarcarse to offer lines of healthy pass, and possibly was this one of the reasons by which Messi, Suárez and Neymar received less balloons of the usual up, without a lot of options of desbordar and surprise to the rival defenders.

To base of long possessions, the FC Barcelona attained to cool the party encomiándose to the control of balloon and the offensive order during the last chamber of hour of the first-half. Leo Messi and Neymar Jr were those who tried to make played of funambulista to the edge of the rival area, leaving of several rivals, but always had players "groguets" to turn off the light bulb of the Barça in attack. In spite of this, the fact to have during almost all the time the balloon in the zone of three chambers allowed to Claudio Bravo live calmer low sticks, without that the Villarreal attained to approach as much as had done it along the first minutes. Mascherano And Hammered were very attentive at all times to the hour of cortocircuitar the contragolpes of the venues, endowing to the party of a balance that had not had until then. The Villarreal, however, had a very clear opportunity after a pass of the death of Soldier to the that by very little did not arrive Bakambu, with Bravo already sold "". In the played back, the Barça hurt and sentenced practically the meeting. A good counterattack carried by the "MSN" finished with a doubtful penalti of Asenjo to Neymar, pitado by the referee. The guardameta achieved to snatch the balloon of the legs to the Brazilian, although also there was contact with the player of the Barça. At the end, the result was a golazo of Neymar Jr to the "style Panenka", tricking like this of the penaltis failed in other parties.

The Barça relaxes and the Villarreal reduces distances

The FC Barcelona went out to the lawn in the second half with the will to manage efforts, touching and touching in the centre of the field and without having any haste to the hour to resolve the played. The team rested with the spherical and, at the same time, wore out to a Villarreal that did not leave to run behind the ball, without opportunity in the majority of occasions to recover the possession. Sergio Busquets endowed of a big balance to the group blaugrana and exerted in addition to metronome to the hour to distribute the balloon of a side to another, with Rakitic and Burn Turan like escuderos. The Villarreal no longer offered the same intensity that before in the pressure of balloon, and the Barça did not have problems in taking out -to base of quality- the ball from backwards. In the minute 9 of party, however, a good shot from out of the area of Trigueros put in difficulties to Claudio Bravo, although the balloon fortunately left was after the shot brushed the right square. To the ten minutes of the second half, Luis Enrique moved the bench and took out of the field to Hammered and Burn Turan, both with yellow card, to plant to Mathieu and Dani Alves, moving to Sergi Roberto to the centre of the field.

However, the Brazilian and the French did not go out with the necessary intensity and this took advantage of it the Villarreal to go back to enchufarse to the party. Trigueros Connected with Denis Suárez and the mediapunta Galician generated a dangerous shot, repelled by Bravo. Bakambu Collected the refuse and sent the balloon at the end of the meshes, reducing distances in the marker and planting to the Villarreal very inside the party. So much, that from here the party transformed in an avalanche of occasions in favour of the Villarreal. The Barça lost balloons and was not hit to the hour to clear the danger, thing that took advantage of the venues to besiege the goal of Bravo to base of finish of head and several dangerous shots. The FC Barcelona had relaxed with the 0-2 and after the two changes, and had paid it expensive losing an advantage of gold.

The Villarreal empata and the Barça loses an occasion of gold

So bad was the Barça in this stretch of party and so enchufado the Villarreal, that the scales finished for balancing the strengths with the second goal of the Villarreal, work of Jeremy Mathieu in own door to the exit of a corner. Roberto Soldered combed the balloon and this touched in the arm of the central French, depositing at the bottom of the goal of Claudio Bravo and putting the tables in the marker to fault of less than half hour for the end. The FC Barcelona had lost the control and the final result of the meeting was clearly in the air. Before the Villarreal empatara, Neymar Jr had had a clear occasion of goal, but Asenjo had made the paradón of the day pulling to divert the shot of the Brazilian to corner. The back tie, however, woke up to the "MSN", that began to participate more in the game combinativo and to put in check to the defence of the ones of Marcelino García Toral. Sergi Roberto tested a shot from out of the area in the minute 69, but the ball left diverted. Three minutes afterwards, a finish of head of Rakitic was about to to turn into the third goal of the Barça, but Asenjo was very attentive to repel again the danger.

In the last chamber of hour of meeting, the FC Barcelona tightened and tried to put siege to the goal of Sergio Asenjo, conscious that the victory would give him an essential impulse in League BBVA 2015-16, planting eleven points of advantage regarding the Athletic of Madrid. The Villarreal, however, did not give his arm to twist and defended with nails and teeth. Ivan Rakitic was definitely the best player of the FC Barcelona regarding performance on the lawn, being everywhere and balancing the centre of the field culé, although for the moment this was not sufficient for a Barça in which Messi, Neymar and Luis Suárez were not the sufficiently connected as to sentence the party. Rakitic Had a new clear opportunity after a bad refuse of Asenjo, but his volley from out of the area left too diverted, without seeing goal. At the end, the Barça lost two points in The Madrigal against a competitive Villarreal. In spite of this, however, is now more leader that never, with nine points of advantage on the Athletic. 

Technical index card of the party: Villarreal 2-2 FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona, 2: Bravo; Sergi Roberto, Hammered (Mathieu, 54'), Mascherano, Alba; Busquets, Rakitic, Burn (Alves, 56'); Neymar, Messi and Suárez.

Villarreal, 2: Asenjo; Mario, Bailly, Ruiz, Rukavina; Castillejo, Bruno, Trigueros, Denis (Pina, 74'); Soldier (Baptistao, 83') and Bakambu (Adrián, 71').

Goals of the party: Ivan Rakitic, 20'; Neymar, 41'; Bakambu, 57'; Mathieu (p.p), 63'.

Referee: Sánchez Martínez.

Incidences: corresponding Party to the thirtieth day of the League BBVA 2015-16, contested in The Madrigal.

Next party: FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid (League BBVA J31)

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