The humiliated barça and the carpet!

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By: Manu Tournoux

The defeat against a Paris Saint-Germain Paris obviously hurt FC Barcelona. Four days after their setbacks against Luis Enrique players, the Catalans were dried (4-1) on the lawn of Seville FC during the 8th day of Liga. Until then undefeated in the league, the men of Hansi Flick have been calmed by the Andalusians and abandon the first place in the ranking at Real Madrid, victorious of Villarreal (3-1) the day before.

Veteran Alexis Sanchez opened the scoring on a penalty spot (13th), before Isaac Romero doubles the bet on a flash counterattack (36th). Marcus Rashford relaunched the suspense just before the break of a volley under the bar (45th+7), but the players of Matias Almeyda held out.

Two late goals and a missed peno

It was even they who found the fault again twice in additional time, on a Carmona realization on a grazing cross strike (90th), then thanks to Akor Adams, the former Montpellier striker (90th+6).

It is a superb operation for Seville, which is now in 4th place, 8 points from the Madrid leader. Barça, which played without Lamine Yamal, missed a penalty through Robert Lewandowski (76th) which would have allowed him to equalize …