With late goals from Pedri and Ferran Torres, Barcelona beat Cadiz 2-0 in the first official match at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in Montjuic, where the team will play while the Camp Nou undergoes an extensive makeover.
Barcelona set up a way to win late and guarantee a house warming festivity at its temporary new home for the season on Sunday.
With late pretensions from Pedri and Ferran Torres, Barcelona beat Cadiz 2- 0 in the first sanctioned match at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in Montjuic, where the platoon will play while the Camp Nou undergoes an expansive makeover.
Pedri opened the scoring in the 82nd nanosecond and Torres scored in cessation time.
Barcelona secured its first palm of the season despite the absence of trainer Xavi and forward Raphinha because of red cards in the 0- 0 opening draw at Getafe last weekend. Xavi was handed a two- game suspense for exorbitantly complaining to the adjudicator and Raphinha was transferred off for jamming an opponent.
Xavi watched from the daises at the Olympic colosseum and said he was happy with the platoon’s new home.
“I really liked how the suckers supported the platoon the whole time. This is veritably positive for the club, ” he said. “ The crowd responded nicely. It was a good launch and they will keep supporting us indeed more. ”
Barcelona, the defending titleholders, plodded in attack until Pedri set up the net with a left- footed touch following a nice give- and- go play with midfielder Ilkay Gundogan, the platoon’s main signing this season. Torres sealed the palm with a thing from inside the area after a late breakaway. Robert Lewandowski had a thing disallowed for offside.
The palm came before a crowd of 39,603 people at the Lluis Companys, which was the main colosseum for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and can hold 49,000 people — compared to the 99,000- capacity Camp Nou, Europe’s largest soccer colosseum. The Camp Nou is witnessing a long- delayed overhaul to ameliorate its installations and add indeed more seats.
“It was good to come to our new colosseum, ” Barcelona goalkeeper Marc- André ter Stegen said. “ This palm will make effects easier for us going forward. ”
Cadiz, which slightly avoided deportation last season, opened with a 1- 0 palm over Alaves last weekend.
Atletico Madrid was held to a 0- 0 draw at Real Betis in a match with many significant scoring openings in the heat of Seville.
Betis looked the more dangerous platoon but wasn’t suitable to break the impasse at the Benito Villamarín Stadium.
“We were better in the first half but in the alternate it came harder because of the heat, ” Betis trainer Manuel Pellegrini said. “ But you can no way say that a draw against Atletico is a bad result. ”
Both brigades were trying to win their alternate successive match to start the season.
“We didn’t produce a lot of peril in the first half but could have done better in front of the thing after halftime, ” Atletico trainer Diego Simeone said.
Betis has won only one of its last 22 league matches against Atletico since Simeone’s appearance.
Also Sunday, Getafe remained winless after losing 3- 0 at Girona, which had two pretensions from Uruguay striker Cristhian Stuani in the alternate half after one from Venezuelan midfielder Yangel Herrera in the first.
Madrid won 3- 1 at Almería on Saturday for its alternate successive palm. It leads the league alongside Valencia, which beat Las Palmas 1- 0 on Friday. Know More Latest Football News…
