Lobo Carrasco: “Deadly robberies”

1. Left-handed plunger. Ceuta set up an energetic duel with pressure and a very compact line, suffocating Barça’s inside game. It went well for 40 minutes as Ferran and Raphinha couldn’t force the dribble or Lewandowski could have played goal facing Mejías.

Romero’s men believed in a miracle when they got through the first twenty minutes without feeling the unquestionable technical superiority of Barça. They pressed well and made no mistake in the failure of the Blaugrana team. Sergi Roberto, yesterday’s starting midfielder, was closely guarded and neither Kessié nor Pablo Torre could go more than three/quarters from the field. Traffic jams and discomfort are what the host team has done.

Minutes passed and Alba was warming up the engines. The blaugrana need to fully open up the attacking field but still lack depth in good winger positions.

There was no need because when Raphinha arrived on the edge of the local area, he executed the liberating topspin shot. 0-1 was a decisive observation of what happened in the second half.

2 – Deadly robbery. Ceuta wanted to start again on offense but Rodri’s loneliness benefited Eric García and Marcos Alonso. Everything is controlled by the second. That is also the key to Xavi’s happiness. The Ceuta team could not keep up with the pressure and in the first serious mistake at the back, against Kessie, Robert Lewandowski plugged in 0-2. Minute 49′ and a completely different scenario from the first act.

Gavi was at stake but the Egarense coach was already thinking about changes after Romero made three at once but to no avail. Fati came on to play in the last half hour and was again involved in the goal. He made it 0-3 with a clean counter where Jordi Alba was the bait and a slight movement of the waist, from the striker, the letter of access to the last shot. The tie was removed from the numerator and from the minds of the local players.

3 – Taking advantage of the Ceuta disorder. Barça did not ease up this time and the local team could not get back into the game. Everything was managed by Xavi’s men who, with the changes made (Busquets and Christensen), closed the match and added more goals.

0-4 was signed by Kessie with a header that took advantage of the clearance left by Lewandowski (when he left the area) and 0-5 by the Polish striker himself with his brace.

I was delighted with Alarcón’s debut at the age of eighteen; the use of spaces when Ceuta was chaotic and did not relax the thought that the score was always in favor. In debit, the slips of some players when choosing the wrong studs for their boots after reviewing Alfonso Murube.

In Rooms with left foot and solvency.