An unexpected substitution in the match Barcelona - Girona Dembele leaves the field. As early as 25 minutes, Barcelona lost one of their most creative players, while Girona, meanwhile, plays well, creating chances. In terms of ball possession Barcelona leads 65% to 35% of Girona, but as we know now one possession is not enough, the teams have learned to defend and play on the counterattack, when just one moment can decide the outcome of the match.
In general, Girona is playing well so far, against a good Barcelona.
Even though they continued to control the match, unfortunately barcelona has not been able to score a single goal, the disciplined defense that was able to be built well by the girona players caused difficulties for barcelona attackers in scoring goals, losing lewandowski made barcelona look like it did not have a target man who was really reliable and plus now it's actually Dembele who has to be replaced after suffering a slight injury, I think Barcelona front line today very blunt so maybe a draw or a narrow score for Barcelona victory will be the final result of the match later
Still, Baracelona has Pedri, who scored 3 goals in the last four games, so the class of the team has done its job. Basically, after a rather boring first half, the teams picked up the pace and Barca was able to score after a good combination of Fati and Alba, where Pedri only had to carefully put his foot up to send the ball into the goal. We have to give credit to Girona's players, who did not break down after the goal, but scored almost immediately, even from offside and pressed until the end, so that Ter Stegen did not have to relax until the final whistle.
In general, Barcelona can be congratulated on another strong-willed victory 1-0.