Liga: Barça overthrows Valladolid and ensures the essentials before Inter Milan

This Saturday, the 34th day of Liga offered us a duel of the opposites. Authors of a remarkable season, the players of FC Barcelona moved to the lawn of Valladolid, good last and already condemned to the descent, with the need to win. Indeed, in the event of a misconduct, the men of Hansi Flick could see Real Madrid, in the event of victory tomorrow against Celta (2 p.m.), return to one or two units. The German coach nevertheless decided to align a revised team before the semi-final return of the Champions League against Inter Milan on Tuesday. Thus, Barça presented itself without its stars against the chiplanos.

And this great rotation was felt from the start. Paning to find its marks, the Barcelona collective was surprised on the first conceded action. Inheriting from the ball after a badly pushed corner, Ivan Sanchez decided to shoot. Finally, his headache mystified Marc-André Ter Stegen and allowed the premises to take the advantage after a bizarre match start (1-0, 6th). Sanded, the Blaugranas then decided to take control of the ball to return to the game. And despite a clear domination and several opportunities, like this dangerous strikes from Ansu Fati (27th), Barça returned to the locker room by being behind the display board.

The entrants have changed everything for Barça

It was therefore at this point that Hensi Flick decided to bring heavy artillery into. While Lamine Yamal had entered the first period after Dani Rodriguez's injury, the German coach also brought Raphinha and Frenkie de Jong. Cascade changes that have necessarily changed the face of the match. Having sterile possession until then, the abutments have now been much more sharp in the last opposing meters. And faced with one of the worst defenses in Europe, it necessarily did damage. Taking advantage of a bad recovery from the opposing goalkeeper, Raphinha did not tremble and put the two teams up to a beautiful strike of the right (1-1, 54th).

Far from being satiated, the Catalans quickly doubled the bet to take control of the game. Served in the depth, Gerard Martin slipped a subtle ball back to Fermin Lopez who was not asked to give his family the advantage of a superb left strike (1-2, 61st). From then on, Barça had fun. Faced with harmless virginity, Ronald Araujo's teammates could have borsed the addition (68th, 81st), but this third goal will never have seen the light of day. Being satisfied with this stunning victory, Barça assured the essentials: temporarily resuming seven units ahead of Real Madrid, the Catalans found a smile before facing Inter Milan on Tuesday. All while having perfectly managed the bodies with no injury to identify at the end of this meeting, except that of the young Dani Rodriguez, who was arguing his first minutes with the Catalans. Everything rides for FC Barcelona!