La Liga champions Barcelona have been crushed on the ultimate day of the season by a spirited Celta Vigo facet who, with a win, secured their place in Spain’s prime flight.
Celta’s hero on the night time was 21-year-old Gabriel Veiga who bagged a brace to maintain his membership in La Liga for an additional season.
Contained in the opening 10 minutes, league winners Barcelona thought they’d taken the lead by Frank Kessie. The midfielder pounced on a mis-hit strike from the sting of the field from Robert Lewandowski to fireplace emphatically into the highest left nook of the online, nevertheless after a fast VAR test, he was adjudged to have completed so from an offside place.
Kessie would come inside a whisker of discovering the opener as soon as once more simply ten minutes later. This time the midfielder would steal in unmarked on the again submit to move a luxurious Lewandowski cross vast of the submit.
Lewa got here near scoring himself previous to half-time too, curling a pleasant effort off of the foot of the correct submit from the left flank.
Relegation-threatened Celta Vigo created some possibilities of their very own within the first half too, certainly one of which might fall to Oscar Rodriguez. The 24-year-old was discovered by a intelligent knock down from Luca de la Torre on the sting of the field, however might solely drill his subsequent effort vast of the submit.
The house facet would then discover the again of the online on the stroke of half-time by teen Gabriel Veiga. The ahead bagged his tenth La Liga aim of the season, drilling into the underside proper left nook of the online after being performed by by Haris Seferovic.
A moderately tepid second half sparked into life within the sixty fifth minute by a moderately weird second aim from Veiga. The 21-year-old noticed his tried cross from the correct flank loop proper over the pinnacle of Barca’s substitute goalkeeper Inaki Pena, off the submit, and into the again of the online.
Barca would make Celta sweat for his or her La Liga security late on, with substitutes Ousmane Dembele and Ansu Fati combining to make it 2-1 with 10 minutes remaining. Dembele cross the ball into the again submit space to Fati, who headed dwelling to make the ultimate minutes moderately nervy for the house facet.
Celta have been in a position to maintain on for the final 10 minutes of peculiar time and 6 minutes of stoppage time to safe their place within the prime flight.
GK – Marc-Andre ter Stegen – 5/10 – He is loved a shocking season however appeared so much shakier than traditional on Sunday.
RB – Sergi Roberto – 5/10 – The Barca captain for the night time did not get ahead notably nicely.
CB – Jules Kounde – 5/10 – Seferovic induced him issues on the night time.
CB – Andreas Christensen – 4/10 – The Danish worldwide did not look as assured with out Ronald Araujo by his facet.
LB – Marcos Alonso – 3/10 – Simply nowhere close to pretty much as good as Alejandro Balde. Nowhere close to.
CM – Franck Kessie – 6/10 – Barca’s liveliest midfielder within the first half, scoring an offside aim contained in the opening 10 minutes.
CM – Eric Garcia – 5/10 – Not a midfielder. Rapidly dropped again into centre half at half-time, the place he appeared far more comfy.
CM – Frenkie de Jong – 5/10 – Sloppier than traditional on the ball and was dispossessed within the lead as much as Celta Vigo’s opener.
RW – Raphinha – 4/10 – He didn’t do a lot of something.
ST – Robert Lewandowski – 6/10 – Hit the submit within the first half after which barely touched the ball within the second.
LW – Ferran Torres – 4/10 – You’ll be able to see why Barcelona are in all probability going to promote Ferran Torres this summer season.
Substitutes
Gavi – 6/10 – Battled exhausting in the course of the park.
Inaki Pena – 3/10 – Got here on and conceded a comical aim.
Pablo Torre – N/A.
Ansu Fati – 7/10 – His type has improved in current weeks, and he continued to show his value with a aim off the bench on Sunday.
Ousmane Dembele – 6/10 – A shocking cross to arrange Barca’s aim.
Supervisor – Xavi Hernandez – 5/10 – The choice to begin Eric Garcia in midfield was pretty rogue, and his choice to begin Ferran Torres as a substitute of Ansu Fati additionally did not make a complete lot of sense both. His substitutions helped issues a bit within the second half as he righted a number of tactical wrongs with them.
