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Barça put on the frac to sing the alirón in the field of a disappeared Espanyol. The blue and white players did not appear and many fans left early to not see how Barcelona was crowned. The Blaugrana gave themselves the best outcome to reach a title announced since Madrid was beaten at the Camp Nou. There has been no team or debate during the tournament other than the Barça game. The discussion ended every time Xavi had the best line-up as happened at the RCDE Stadium. There was no derby or match on a night monopolized by Barça.
ESPEspanyol
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Pacheco, Brian (Luca Koleosho, min. 84), Cabrera, Óscar Gil, Sergi Gómez (Javi Puado, min. 45), César Montes, Darder, Melamed (Edu Expósito, min. 86), Denis Suárez (Calero, min. 45), Braithwaite (Adrià Pedrosa, min. 55) and Joselu
BCN Barcelona
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Ter Stegen, Koundé, Ronald Araújo (Alba, min. 62), Alex Balde, A. Christensen (Marcos Alonso, min. 74), Busquets, Pedri (Kessié Franck, min. 89), Frenkie De Jong, Lewandowski, Gavi (Ansu Fati, min. 74) and Raphinha (Ousmane Dembélé, min. 62)
Goals 0-1 min. 10: Lewandowski. 0-2 min. 20: Alex Balde. 0-3 min. 40: Lewandowski. 0-4 min. 53: Koundé. 1-4 min. 72: Javi Puado. 2-4 min. 92: Joselu.
Arbitrator Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea
Yellow cards Koundé (min. 1), Gavi (min. 38) and Alba (min. 81)
Although the relegation does not give truce and the alirón had waiting, the leader was affirmed as champion at the first time, after ridiculing Espanyol with four days left to finish the League. The Barça ambition contrasted with the blue and white apathy in a match finished off by Pichichi Lewandowski (21 goals) and governed by Pedri, undetectable between the lines for the Espanyol media and defenses. Despite the fact that the blue and white have not beaten Barça since 2007 and have not achieved a victory against Barça at the RCDE Stadium, there is no memory of such an overwhelming or effective Barça performance, presided over by a shocking 2-4.
The goals were falling since the Barça full-backs, especially deep, ended very soon with the vehemence of the Espanyol media. The Barça played well and fast and ran without rhyme or reason the blue and white in the surprised RCDE Stadium. Lewandowski pushed into the net a cross from Balde in the 0-1, after Pedri had missed a goal sung to Koundé's pass, and Balde crowned shortly after in the second post a play woven by Pedri: 0-2. Around the Tenerife, Barcelona sewed the game cheerfully and comfortably while in the stands the shouts of the fans resounded against the directive of Chen Yansheng.
Espanyol did not defend well nor did he press in time, excessively aware of the melee, of the fouls and also of the cards, very focused on Koundé, admonished in minute 1 for a clash with Brian Olivan. Espanyol bled inside and out, disoriented and disorderly, always in numerical inferiority in the divide, with no more air than the sentimental gas recovered with the arrival of Luis García. The coach was wrong with a reckless line-up and had no answers to Xavi's game plan. At the foot or in space, Barça handled the ball and the spaces before the inopia of a passive Espanyol.
The fans whistled and Pedri walked the field like Pedro at home, surprisingly familiar with the RCDE Stadium by the resignation of Espanyol. The white and blue never found the moment to enter the game because the 0-3 fell before the break, after Lewandowski finished off an assist from Raphinha, and the 0-4 was counted in the resumption, when Luis García had moved the bench – he dismantled the defense of five and filled the core – and De Jong enabled the persevering Koundé.
Espanyol was only encouraged from the derision of 0-4 and when the game became a joke for Barça. Puado and in the end Joselu fixed the score, not the match, after three very serious interventions by Ter Stegen. The goalkeeper, one of the five Barça players who won the league in 2019 – along with Alba, Sergi Roberto, Dembélé and Busquets – aspires to Zamora in the same way that Lewandowski intends the Pichichi to personify the title that Barcelona fans celebrated in Canaletas before the impossibility of accessing the RCDE Stadium.
The Blaugrana could not celebrate the League on the field but had to leave by legs when they had mounted a rondo at the RCDE Stadium. Some fans jumped onto the field and began to fly objects in a blushing end for an Espanyol that does not leave the relegation of the League, more sunk by the champion Barça.
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