Levante 2-Barcelona 3 | Luuk and the children save Barça

Barça continues in the fight thanks to a win (2-3) in a crazy gamewhich began with Barça asleep, which Levante had in their hands, which then Barça reconquered with Ter Stegen, Pedri and Gavi, which Levante tied again through a third penalty and which Luuk decided at the last moment de Jong.

Barça arrived in Valencia, but the team was still in Frankfurt. The staging of Xavi’s team in Orriols was a continuation of Thursday’s barefoot, in which the Blaugrana team was outperformed at all times by Eintracht.

In the first play of the game, 20 seconds to be exact, Alves already put his team in the first trouble by raffling off a ball that not even Morales believed and his shot went wide when he had everything in his favor to score.

That rude mistake by the Brazilian, which was one of the novelties of the Blaugrana team along with Dembélé, Eric and Nico, destabilized a Barça that did not give a single right in the first 45 minutes, probably the worst for a long time.

Barça survived thanks to corrections by Eric Garcia and Araújo. The rest was a full-fledged disaster that left Barça at the feet of a Levante team that made more than enough merit in the first half to go into the break with a solid lead.

The clearest occasion was a huge move by Morales, who went like a knife into hot butter between the Barça defense consecutively eliminating Araújo, Busquets and Alba to stand up to Ter Stegen, who managed to touch the ball just enough to slow down the ball and allow Eric Garcia to arrive in time to clear it before it went in.

But that occasion, which was clamorous, was not the only one, Radoja, Roger and Campaña had theirs taking advantage of the imbalances of a Barça in which Nico did not find his place, Alves was half lame, Dembélé offered his desperate version and Aubameyang was absolutely transparent.

The only dangerous play by Barça was caused by Ter Stegen in a pass from goal to goal that Ferran finished with an innocent shot.

While all this was happening, Xavi’s anger in the band was obvious. The team needed to change their attitude, because of players, at the moment, they were still the same. Including Alves, who already showed signs of not being physically able in the first half, five minutes after the restart, He dangerously put out his arms to stop Son because he couldn’t reach it with his legs. Penalty that Morales converted doing justice to what had been seen up to that moment, although Barça had given signs of life with a header from Ferran that Cárdenas took out in a great performance.

Without time to react, a second penalty came, at the hands of Eric in another play in which Alves was late, but this time, Morales gave it to Roger, who missed Ter Stegen. Barça received an extra life and Xavi, to take advantage of it, put Pedri and Gavi on the field and Barça began to carburete after two minutes: Aubameyang appeared out of nowhere to head in the equalizing goal from Dembélé’s center after Pedri’s first move.

The entry of these two kids changed the game. Gavi overflowed on the right, delayed the ball to the edge and Pedri scored the goal that turned the game around.

But the party’s script still awaited a new twist. Lenglet, who came on for Alves, seemed to throw away the entire comeback with one of his trademark penalties, but Luuk appeared to seal a crazy win.