Barcelona youth victory against Elche at the Camp Nou

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Barça and Lewandowski found at the Camp Nou how much they missed on Tuesday in Munich.

The azulgrana resolved forcefully and with little effort a game that always turned in their favor at the sunny Camp Nou.

The Blaugrana people have returned to the stadium, encouraged by the team and by Lewandowski's goals, and the League currently looks better than the Champions League.

The Polish striker scored two more goals, and there are already 11 in eight games, to the desperation of Elche, angry with the referee, with the rival and with life, a victim of the effervescence of the Camp Nou.

Nobody wanted to remember the Allianz Arena.

BCN Barcelona

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Ter Stegen, Koundé, Eric Garcia (Héctor Bellerín, min. 58), Ronald Araújo, Alex Balde, Kessié Franck (Gavi, min. 45), Frenkie De Jong, Pedri, Ousmane Dembélé (Raphinha, min. 59), Lewandowski ( Ferrán Torres, min. 71) and Depay (Ansu Fati, min. 58)

ELC Elche

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Edgar, Clerc, Bigas (Diego González, min. 76), Gonzalo Verdú, John Donald, Helibelton Palacios, Tete Morente (Ezequiel Ponce, min. 67), Raúl Guti (Nicolás Fernández, min. 52), Fidel (Domingos Quina, min. 52), Gumbau and Lucas Boyé (Josan, min. 67)

Goals

1-0 min.

33: Lewandowski.

2-0 min.

40: Depay.

3-0 min.

47: Lewandowski.

Referee

Alejandro Muñiz Ruiz

Yellow cards Kessié Franck (min. 4), Fidel (min. 27), Nicolás Fernández (min. 69) and Ferrán Torres (min. 72)

Red cards Gonzalo Verdú (min. 13)

The afternoon invited parties and, above all, snacks due to the family atmosphere of the stadium, full of boys and more girls than ever, and also due to the disappearance of the video scoreboard for the southern goal, anticipation of the arrival of the cranes and the pilgrimage next season to Montjuïc for the start at last of the Espai Barça.

The line-up also fueled the discussion due to the absence of Ansu Fati and Ferran Torres and the ownership of Balde ahead of Jordi Alba.

Memphis played as a third striker and the central Koundé remained as a right back when the appointment was supposed to be propitious for Bellerin.

Personal issues weighed more than collective and even competitive ones because the fans gave victory for sure against an opponent who has never won at the Camp Nou, he is bottom with one point and after 13 minutes he was left with ten due to Gonzalo Verdú's expulsion , the capital piece of the plan assembled by Francisco with five defenders: 5-4-1.

The center-back grabbed Lewandowski after being enabled by Frenkie de Jong when he was on his way to the open field area and the referee expelled him due to the complaints of the Elche players.

The numerical superiority pushed Barça to shoot Badía.

Until then there was a lot of disorder, there was no passing line, the game was too fast and the pressure after losing the ball is not the same when Gavi is not there.

Football also shoots up when Busquets is missing and the midfielder is De Jong.

And besides, Kessié kept letting go of her elbows with each jump to the protests of Francisco's boys.

Only a couple of shots from Memphis and Dembélé had been counted when the half hour mark was reached in a schoolyard match, without rhythm, not very academic, difficult to digest and also to correct for Xavi.

The confusion ended as soon as Pedri appeared and gave light to the Camp Nou.

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Video of the goals of Barcelona-Elche

The man from Tenerife ordered them to stop instead of running and deepened for Balde.

The winger continued Pedri's clairvoyance with a precise center that Lewandowski holed in.

The alert Balde reappeared at 2-0 when he played for Memphis and the Dutchman stepped on the leather with his right hand and then turned and violently finished off Badía's net with his left foot.

A goal from a futsal player of the stature of Ferrao.

There was no news from Elche, cannon fodder since he competed in numerical inferiority, unbalanced by Lewandowski's movements, Balde's arrivals, Dembélé's dribbles and Pedri's turns.

Inside, the 3-0 was annulled due to the intervention of Var in an action that ended with the surprising expulsion of Francisco.

Elche no longer knew what to do while Lewandowski extended his account with a classic center forward goal that pushes any ball rejected in the area, especially if it comes from the goalkeeper, as happened with Edgar Badía, demanded by Memphis and Dembélé.

Ferran and Ansu, sterile

There was no game after Lewandowski's second goal.

Xavi replaced the Pole and Ansu Fati appeared while the fans of the north goal did not stop singing to encourage a team as relaxed as it is jovial, just as innocent as the little Barça fans.

Nobody noticed in Munich and there was no more frustration than that of Ansu Fati and Ferran, both impotent at the time of putting the final point to Barça's football.

Both are going through a delicate moment, the youth squad because he has not quite found his set-up after his last muscle injury -nothing to do with the meniscus- and the Valencian because of the lack of a goal, rehabilitated by Luis Enrique's call.

Both of them lack the confidence that Balde exudes, the news of the afternoon for his ease in reaching and centering, as if he were the reincarnation of Alba.

At 18 years old, Balde crowned an excellent youth evening at the Camp Nou.

Nothing better than waiting for the Madrid derby with a 3-0 win and the provisional leadership of the League.

The rotations work as long as the magician Pedri plays and there is time for Inter and the Champions League after Munich.

Xavi: "The illusion for this team is palpable in the street"

“What has surprised me about Lewandowski is the human facet.

He is very humble, hard-working, professional.

We had no doubts about the other, that's why we signed him.

It is a luxury for us to have Robert in the team”, explained Xavi Hernández.

The Pole has scored in the last five league games and now has seven.

A premiere in Spain similar to that of Di Stéfano (1953) and Vieri (1997).

Lewandowski does not surprise Xavi and neither does Dembélé.

"He always wants to play," he said of the Frenchman, who spent the night in hospital on Friday for the birth of his first child.

Xavi has everyone plugged in.

“We have a large group.

Everyone is training very well, everyone is responding very well.

The squads are the ones that win the titles, not the onces”, said Xavi.

Hooked the template, hooked the swollen.

Barça has an average attendance at the Camp Nou of 82,000 spectators.

"The enthusiasm is palpable in the people, in the stadium, on the street... There are expectations and we have to continue working with humility", closed the coach.

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