Barcelona FC came back and defeated Alavés 3-1 to put pressure on Real Madrid for first place in the LaLiga table.
The Catalan club is in first place, momentarily, with 34 points. Barcelona would have two more points than the Merengues who will play this Sunday against Girona.
The goals were scored by Lamine Yamal and a double by Dani Olmo to complete the comeback of a Barcelona that started losing from the first minute.
Barcelona comes back against an Alavés that did not enjoy the advantage
The Catalan club began losing after 43 seconds with a goal from Pablo Ibañez. Although Barcelona would have a lot of time to come back.
At minute 8, young Lamine Yamal tied the score, which was his first goal of the season in LaLiga.
According to Misterchip, Lamine Yamal has scored his 19th goal in La Liga at the age of 18 years and 139 days. Raúl González, historic captain of Real Madrid, scored his 19th goal in La Liga at 18 years and 215 days old.
They are the two youngest players to reach that number in the entire history of the Spanish championship.
The Catalans looked to go ahead and, after a save by Joan García, they put together a play that Dani Olmo defined to put Barça ahead.
Lamine Yamal, Olmo and Casadó tried several shots, but the Alavés defense shielded Sivera’s goal. TO
Furthermore, the Victorian team still had time to put fear into Barcelona’s body in the final minutes in which they went all out for the tie.
With six minutes to go, Joan García won a one-on-one with the recently introduced Guridi that the referee ended up annulling for offside.
In the last counter of the match, Olmo received a pass from Lamine Yamal and crossed the ball into the back of the net over Sivera’s exit to make the final score 3-1.
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