Lewandowski Drives Barca To Victory At Sevilla
Lewandowski Drives Barca To Victory At Sevilla
On Saturday in La Liga, Barcelona overcame Sevilla 3-0 with a goal from Robert Lewandowski once more.
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Ivan Rakitic and Youssef En-Nesyri were denied by Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Barcelona took advantage of their good fortune early on at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan before the visitors scored against the flow of play.
Lewandowski’s dinked attempt was cleared off the line, but it didn’t take him long to score himself. Raphinha headed in the rebound.
Lewandowski scored his fifth league goal in four appearances by controlling a flighted pass from Jules Kounde on his chest and volleying past Bono.
Lewandowski Drives Barca To Victory At Sevilla
Eric Garcia tapped in Barcelona’s third five minutes after half-time after Raphinha’s cross was nodded across the goal by Kounde, who was sold by Sevilla for 50 million euros ($49.8 million) this summer.
Barcelona, who host Viktoria Plzen on Wednesday in the opening round of Champions League group games, are two points behind Madrid — 2-1 winners over Betis earlier in the day.
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Vinicius Junior struck for the third game running as Madrid took an early lead at the Santiago Bernabeu, but Sergio Canales soon equalized with a goal against his former club.
Rodrygo secured maximum points for Carlo Ancelotti’s side just past the hour with his first goal of the campaign.
“He’s a special forward because he can play in any position. He’s very quick and very intelligent without the ball,” Ancelotti said of Rodrygo, now in his fourth season with Real.
Lewandowski Drives Barca To Victory At Sevilla
“The apprenticeship is over and now he’s a Real Madrid player in every way.”
Next up for the European champions is a trip to Celtic in the Champions League.
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“The team’s going through a good patch right now, the squad has a lot of confidence,” said Ancelotti.
“The most important game of the first part of the season is coming up on Tuesday. We’re going to be taking on a team that’s on a fantastic run and it’s going to be very difficult.”
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