Barcelona He won again three days later and the rule of this season in the League was once again met: if Lamine Yamal starts, his team wins. And the teenage star is still not as he was before he stopped, but he manages to be decisive. When it was looking worse for the leader in the second half in Son Moix, he starred in three plays (none of his direct goals), which led to the victory and even a De Jong smilewhich scored the fourth goal, in need of positive stimuli as it is.
Mallorca complicated the game with a absurd play. When the danger seemed to have passed after the pass to Dani Olmothe ball went to goalkeeper Leo Román, but there was a lack of communication and Mujica cleared… against his own teammate, Valjent. The goalkeeper went to the ground and Ferran Torres was quick to take advantage of the situation. The Valencian was the “9” and played “9”. He was the player who took Lewandowski’s placethe big news in Flick’s eleven, since for the first time this season the Pole was not a starter.
After the goal, the player Ferran himself had the second, and then Lamine Yamal in an even clearer way, all after Raphinha arrived from the left. Barcelona has lost its aim and that makes it suffer. He has also lost the game, because despite the opportunities, he could not hold the game, make it his own, command, calm down. Quite the opposite, for a moment it was an uncontrolled street race, with spaces everywhere, which neither team was able to penalize. Mallorca because they were offside and Barça because they were imprecise in the final actions. With such an open clash, the visiting team was in danger because Cubarsí saw yellow after three minutes and Casadó also in the initial stretch. That conditions when going to duels, and in case of measuring wrong… Two of Barcelona’s setbacks this year (Monaco and Vigo) have been conditioned by red cards.
Mallorca had physical superiority in the high balls with Muriqi, but the tying goal ended up coming from below, when they finally managed to break the line: Maffeo did it (also Samu Costa, the first to go for the ball, but he stopped thinking it was in an illegal position) and reached the area without opposition to assist Muriqi, who only had to push the ball. Barça could still have gone to the locker room with an advantage, but Leo Román spectacularly stopped Raphinha’s one-on-one match.
Some of their most decisive players are not very sharp at this stage of the season. Raphinha is still very active, but Lamine Yamal, recently returned from his injury, was a bit hasty, and Dani Olmo is having a hard time regaining his tone. Although it was the two of them who ended up breaking the game, with a pass into space for Lamine. He made space for Mujica and went in front so that the defender ran over him and gave him a penalty. Raphinha did not forgive him.
Barcelona still had a few minutes of certain uncertainty. It was as if the marker delimited the script. With a tie, Mallorca fell further behind. With the Barça advantage, the locals went higher, but again and again they fell into the trap (up to eleven offsides). Samu Costa’s header was his most dangerous legal action, and the preamble to Lamine Yamal’s exhibition. He still lacks continuity in particular and getting the right decision-making in general (he is 17 years old, a lot of room to do so), but There is plenty of quality and his left boot is pure gold. The pass with the outside for Raphinha’s goal was the technical action of the afternoon, impossible to improve, moving away from the defender and approaching the finisher.
He repeated his exquisite performance with Pau Víctor, in the action that ended in De Jong’s goal. And Pau Víctor himself achieved fifth (assisted by the Dutchman). Once again the score determined the development, because Mallorca went all out and was ruthlessly destroyed by the leader.