La Liga: Barcelona regain scoring contact with 4-0 rout of Osasuna
It didn’t take lengthy for Barcelona’s offense to regain its scoring contact.
After being held to a disappointing scoreless draw with Galatasaray within the first leg of the spherical of 16 of the Europa League, Barcelona scored three targets in lower than half-hour Sunday en path to a cushty 4-0 win over Osasuna within the Spanish league.
Ferran Torres discovered the online twice and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Riqui Puig added a objective every to maintain the Catalan membership in third place. It has the identical 51 factors as Atletico Madrid however leads on the head-to-head tiebreaker. Barcelona additionally has a sport in hand in comparison with the defending champions.
Barcelona and Atletico path second-place Sevilla by 5 factors. League chief Real Madrid, which visits relegation-threatened Mallorca on Monday, is 12 factors forward of Barcelona and Atletico.
Madrid hosts Barcelona subsequent Sunday on the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
Barcelona had scored 14 targets in its final 4 matches in all competitions earlier than the 0-0 dwelling draw towards Galatasaray on Thursday.
“We didn’t do a good job the other day and we know it,” Torres stated. “But today the team responded well. When you keep creating chances, the ball will keep going in.”
Torres opened the scoring Sunday by changing a 14th-minute penalty kick and added to the lead seven minutes later from inside the world after a pleasant by ball by Ousmane Dembele.
Dembele additionally arrange the third objective by Aubameyang within the twenty seventh, making a well-placed cross into the field from the precise flank, and the fourth by Puig within the seventy fifth.
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique, making his 600th look with the membership, had a objective disallowed for offside within the fifty fifth.
Xavi Hernandez’s group is unbeaten in 10 straight video games, since a loss at Athletic Bilbao within the spherical of 16 of the Copa del Rey in January.
“We had a letdown in intensity against Galatasaray and paid for it,” Xavi stated. “Today it was different. It was one of our best matches and it gives us more confidence going forward.”
Barcelona ladies’s group, which clinched its third straight league title earlier within the day, was honored earlier than the match on the Camp Nou Stadium.
SEVILLA HELD
Sevilla was held once more in its pursuit of Madrid with a 1-1 draw at Rayo Vallecano on Sunday, and is seven factors off the lead.
It was the second consecutive league draw for Sevilla, and sixth in its final eight matches within the competitors. Julen Lopetegui’s group prolonged its unbeaten streak within the league to 14 matches, since a loss at Madrid in November. It hasn’t gained in 4 right away video games, drawing all of them.
Bebe put the hosts forward early within the second half and Thomas Delaney equalized for Sevilla within the 63rd.
Sevilla had a penalty awarded within the second half but it surely was reversed by video assessment. It additionally had a objective disallowed by VAR early within the first half.
Rayo, sitting in thirteenth place, hasn’t gained in its final 9 league matches, with seven losses in that run.
Veteran Colombia striker Radamel Falcao missed its third straight sport with Rayo due to an harm.
BETIS REBOUND
Betis ended a five-game winless streak in all competitions with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Athletic.
The dwelling win saved Manuel Pellegrini’s group in fifth place, two factors behind Barcelona and Atletico.
Borja Iglesias scored a Twentieth-minute winner for Betis, which performed the ultimate minutes with 10 males as Nabil Fekir was despatched off with a straight pink card within the eightieth.
It was the third loss in 5 league video games for Athletic, which stayed in eighth place and additional behind the European qualification locations.
SOCIEDAD WIN AGAIN
Martin Zubimendi scored a Seventieth-minute winner as Real Sociedad beat Basque Country rival Alaves 1-0 at dwelling for its third win in 4 matches to remain in sixth place and in competition for the European locations.
Sociedad was coming off a 4-1 loss at league chief Madrid.
Alaves, winless in 4 matches, stayed second-to-last, three factors from security.
