Football Barcelona lost in the final of the Spanish Super Cup 2: 3 after extra time with Bilbao and its biggest star Lionel Messi failed. In the end, he received a red card after hitting the opponent’s head without the ball from behind.
Unlike the semi-final match against San Sebastian, Barcelona also started with Messi in the basic line-up. The Catalan big club sent Antoine Griezmann into the lead in the 40th minute, but Óscar de Marcos equalized until the break.
The second half had a similar course, but Griezmann’s second shot from the 77th minute was answered this time in the last minute of the normal playing time by Asier Villalibre.
The Basque team completed a turn in the fourth minute of extra time, when Iňaki Williams sent the ball from the limit of the lime behind the back of Marc-Andre ter Stegen. At the very end, the frustrated Messi received a red card after hitting his opponent in the back of the head in a duel with Villalibre. This was his first disqualification in a Barcelona jersey.
For Messi, however, this is not the first time that his nerves have run out this season, at the beginning of which he wanted to force a transfer from Barcelona. In the qualifying match for the World Cup in Argentina’s jersey, he vulgarly insulted the opponent’s coach.
Bilbao, who crossed Real Madrid in the semifinals, repaid Barcelona’s recent 2: 3 league defeat and followed on from the 2015 triumph. At that time, they defeated the same opponent 4-0 in the final.
Barcelona scored another failure of the season, losing seven points in the league to leader Atlético Madrid, who also has two good matches.
Spanish Football Super Cup – Final in Seville:
Barcelona – Bilbao 2: 3 after extra time (2: 2, 1: 1)
Branky: 40. to 77. Griezmann – 42. De Marcos, 90. Villalibre, 94. Williams. ČK: 120. + 1 Messi (Barcelona).
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