Lewandowski scored twice, Barcelona got here from behind to defeat Valencia

Barcelona acquired off to a flying begin in La Liga after they beat Valencia 2-1 at Mestalla on the night of August 17, because of a brace from Lewandowski.

After a string of disappointing summer season friendlies, Barcelona had been left with trepidation forward of their La Liga opener in opposition to Valencia. Coach Hansi Flick deployed a 4-2-3-1 formation with Pau Cubarsi, Alejandro Balde, Marc Bernal, Marc Casado and Lamine Yamal ranging from the beginning.

Duro opened the scoring for Valencia (Photograph: EFE).

The match was thrilling with many conditions of tit-for-tat, however the strikers of each groups had fairly unfortunate photographs. Within the forty fourth minute, the impasse was damaged when striker Hugo Duro headed within the penalty space to unexpectedly open the rating for Valencia.

Barcelona confirmed their mettle when within the final minute of harm time within the first half, veteran striker Lewandowski equalized 1-1 for Barcelona with a close-range shot after a go from Lamine Yamal on the best wing.

The second half had solely began for 4 minutes when Raphinha was fouled within the penalty space and the referee instantly pointed to the penalty spot for Barcelona. Lewandowski made no mistake and efficiently transformed the penalty to offer Barcelona a 2-1 lead.

Barcelona might have received by a much bigger margin if that they had taken their probabilities. Notably, Ferran Torres failed to complete in opposition to Mamardashvili within the 59th minute, after a go from Raphinha.

Lewandowski scored twice to deliver 3 factors to Barcelona (Photograph: EFE).

Within the 81st minute, Barcelona attacked from the left wing and the ball was crossed close to the 5m50 space. Nonetheless, Pau Victor put the ball extensive in entrance of the virtually empty objective.

Unable to take full benefit of the chance, Barcelona nonetheless defeated Valencia 2-1 to have a clean begin in La Liga 2024-25 underneath new coach Hansi Flick. In spherical 2 of La Liga, Barcelona will host Bilbao at residence on August 25.

Line-up

Valencia: Mamardashvili, Correia, Mosquera, Gasiorowski, Vazquez (Tejon 77′), Mir (Otorbi 77′), Pepelu, Guerra (Guillamon 86′), Lopez (Foulquier 66′), Almeida (Gomez 66′), Duro.

Objective: Duro (44′)

Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Kounde, Inigo Martinez, Cubarsi (Christensen 64′), Balde (Martin 64′), Raphinha, Casado, Bernal (Garcia 71′), Yamal (Victor 86′), Torres (Pedri 64′), Lewandowski.

Objective: Lewandowski (45’+5, 49′)