Sentences with phrase «from blaugrana»

HALFTIME, Barcelona 2 - 0 Chelsea: Exceptional first half from the Blaugrana.

The first period featured intense pressure from the Blaugrana, who launched a barrage of attacks and scored the first goal after just three minutes thanks to Luis Suárez's effort to win a header and get the ball over the line.

Despite the big result, it wasn't a great performance from the Blaugrana, but Lionel Messi took over, scoring a hat - trick and dominating the match to give his team a key victory and take home the match ball.

At halftime, a sensational game from the Blaugrana gave them a great lead.

Since moving to west London from the Blaugrana in the summer of 2015, Pedro has managed to cement his place in the Blues» first team under Antonio Conte.

Not exact matches

The Blaugrana ended up buying Paco Alcacer from Valencia for big money.

As per Marca, Los Blancos are said to be in the process of hatching a $ 200m transfer plan to prise the former Barca forward back to Spain in the coming years, and while it isn't as bad as a direct move from one La Liga giant to the other, it's fair to say that it wouldn't go down too well with the Blaugrana faithful.

This is according tot the Daily Mail, who are reporting that Luiz, who joined the club for # 34M from PSG in 2016 as per BBC, is to be out injured for the next fours weeks, meaning that he's set to sit out the matches against the Blaugrana and their London rivals.

Barca boss Ernesto Valverde is now set to go after Ligue 1 duo Angel Di Maria and Jean Seri from PSG and Nice respectively, with the Argentine set to fill he void left by Neymar, with Seri set to slot into the Blaugrana midfield to fill the hole left by Xavi after the Spaniard left the club two years ago, as per the Daily Mail.

Neymar has bet on Barça's sporting project, turning down a mega offer from Paris Saint - Germain, who offered much more than the Blaugrana.

With the addition of Samuel Umtiti, the Blaugrana now have five players in the centre - back position, which is why Besiktas see this as an ideal opportunity to try to tempt Mathieu away from Catalonia.

Sociedad appeared on course to end Blaugrana's unbeaten run with a 2 - 0 lead early in the first - half, but goals from Paulinho, Luis Suarez (2), and a brilliant Lionel Messi free - kick wrapped up a comfortable win in the end at the Anoeta Stadium.

The Blaugrana try to recover from the European disaster in Rome with a big La Liga game against Valencia at Camp Nou, and Ernesto Valverde has called up 18 players for the match.

With Philippe Coutinho, Lionel Messi and Ousmane Dembélé wreaking havoc in the Girona defense with their pace, skill and passing, the Blaugrana created chance after chance against a desperate defense that kept scrambling to block shots and stop the ball from hitting the back of the net.

The Brazil international - who joined the Spanish champions from Santos in 2013 - has scored 70 goals in 109 appearances for the Blaugrana over the past three season, also won the treble last season.

Victory at the Camp Nou (1 - 0) with a goal from Suárez, and a win at Mestalla (0 - 2) with goals from Coutinho - his first goal as a blaugrana - and Rakitic, on what was Yerry Mina's debut, saw Barça reach their fourth consecutive final.

The defender has been a regular for Blaugrana since joining from Sevilla in 2008, helped the Catalans to the domestic league, cup and Champions League treble in 2014 - 15.

An equaliser from Alvaro Morata turned the match on its head, only for the Blaugrana to move into top gear and secure the title courtesy of goals from Luis Suarez and Neymar.

The Blaugrana are on course for a domestic double in 2017 - 18 and here, Goal takes a look at their three standout performers from the current campaign

The Blaugrana conceded after just 3 minutes but had a spectacular performance after that, scoring some beautiful goals and play the best football we've seen all season from the leaders.

The Spanish international was back in world - class form, tormenting the Cordoba defence down the left — from his fullback position — in the Blaugrana 5 - 0 win at the Camp Nou.

Nonetheless, Barcelona are expected to continue with their pursuit of top players during the window as they look to strengthen the squad in order to wrestle the La Liga title back from rivals Real Madrid and recent reports have claimed that the Blaugrana are currently considering a move for Tottenham star Dele Alli.

The Catalan tactician is just games away from guiding the Citizens to their third Premier League title in six seasons, but insists they can not be compared with Barcelona, until they attain the same amount of success as the Blaugrana.

A first - half goal from Ivan Rakitic confirmed Barcelona's place in the next round, as the Blaugrana turned in another dominant performance to send City packing.

A blatant handball from Dani Carvajal saw him sent off and the blaugrana handed a penalty.

Injuries (and age in Mathieu's case) have prevented them from working, but now the Blaugrana may have finally found their solution.

Bayern Munich's David Alaba is said to be have been their initial target, but the Blaugrana have distanced themselves from the Austrian owing to a higher price tag as well as competition from fierce rivals Real Madrid.

Barcelona have won nine points from nine after a 4 - 0 victory over Manchester City in their high - profile Champions League matchup at Camp Nou, thanks to a hat - trick from Lionel Messi in what was a difficult game for the Blaugrana until City keeper Claudio Bravo was sent off.

The biggest question for this game will be the formation: Valverde has gone with a lineup designed to control matches, and although a 4 -4-2 formation isn't exactly the most updated tactic in football, it's given the Blaugrana some very good results away from home.

The Blaugrana comfortably beat the Greek champions at Camp Nou two weeks ago and reached nine points from their first three games, which put them in great position for early qualification to the knockout rounds.

The man from Cameroon enjoyed 5 successful seasons with the Blaugrana, winning a host of major trophies.

Vermaelen is the fourth Blaugrana defender injured in the last few weeks, joining Adriano Correia (already cleared), Jérémy Mathieu and Aleix Vidal, forcing coach Luis Enrique to suspend his rotation system and use his starters from now until the end of the season.