[Sport] The Barça makes a plenary session at fourteen in the group stage

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Defeat the Ukrainian Zaporozhje Motor, which forced him to fight thoroughly

Barcelona made the fourteenth full in the group stage of the Champions League that ends this Thursday with its fourteenth victory, this one over the Ukrainian Motor Zaporozhje, which forced him to put on his overalls to carry out a game without respite, with 76 goals (42-34) between both teams.

The Ukrainian champion was more in the event than a Barça that for three days had secured the first position in their group. The Motor was still fighting for third place and, what possibly mattered most to him, avoiding a more than likely crossing with the Catalans if he exceeds the round of 16.

That is why its start was surprising, encouraged by two dozen spectators linked to the club who celebrated each goal with joy. With a very high rhythm, the Motor took the lead (2-4, 4-7, 5-8) with a total efficiency in the launch, forcing Xavi Pascual to stop the game and demand more defensive force from his men. Malasinskas, with his privileged vision of the game, played mischief assisting his teammates and earned an individual marking from Ariño.

It had an effect because Barcá began to recover balls, to force the losses of the rival, Pértez de Vargas began to stop and the counterattacks completed the third degree to which the Catalans subjected their rival.

With a 14-10 that had reversed the trend, it was the Ukrainian coach who called for the time-out. From there, his team clung to the track avoiding the usual Barcelona sweep when carburetting at its usual revs. The tall pivot Bokhan was unstoppable, but Barça followed suit, with Mem and Ariño equally effective in all their actions.

The break recharged the batteries of the two teams that reappeared again willing to give and take without reservation. Malasinskas and Bokhan continued with their particular direct thread and Pascual stopped the match again at 31-26. His team had already surpassed thirty goals, but he put it back to 5: 1 to avoid surprises, because the Motor did not yield.

A series of good interventions very followed by Pérez de Vargas allowed him to hit another stretch (33-26), but the Ukrainians held the type and in a last attack they shortened the disadvantage to four (34-30).

It was almost impossible that, with fewer bench resources, they could hold out for 60 minutes. Barça was able to get refreshments in the final ten and go straight to quarantine, which Entrerríos transferred twice. A barrier that before any other team would have been a walk. Against the tough Motor it was a hard-fought victory, which highlights the value of what Barça did in this first phase of the Champions League. In the second round, the bottom of group A, the Norwegian Elverum, awaits him.

 

DATA SHEET
42- Barcelona: Pérez de Vargas (Moller); Ariño (5), Aleix Gómez (5, 1p), Mem (8), Cindric (2), Palmarsson (4), Fabregas (2); R. Entrerríos (3), Sorhaindo, Janc (3), N'Guessan (4), Dolenec (4, 2p) Thiagus Petrus, Pascual (1), Frade (1).

34 - Zaporozhje Engine: Marosz (Komok); Gurkovsky, Kubatko (2), Denysov (2), Molina, Horiha (5), Bokhan (11); Babichev, Malasinskas (3), Pukhovski (4), Minotskyi (1), Turchenko (1), Kravchenko (2), Dontsov (3), Burzak.

Score every five minutes: 2-5, 7-8, 12-10, 18-12, 21-16, 23-18; 26-20, 29-23, 31-25, 33-27, 38-32, 42-34.

Referees: Nicolau and Cacador (Portugal). They excluded Mem for Barcelona and Babichev, Danysiov, Horiha, Bokhan and Minotskyi for Motor Zaporozhje.

Incidents: Match of the fourteenth day of the Champions League in its group B. Palau Blaugrana, around 40 spectators.