At 1:30 a.m. Beijing time on December 19, the 18th round of the 2021-2022 La Liga season, Barca won 3-2 at home to Elche, Xavi won the third victory in charge of Barca, Garvey and Hutgra scored their debut goals, and Gonzalez, who came on as a substitute, won. After this campaign, Barca scored 27 points to temporarily surpass Valencia to advance to 7th place in the league.
Barca have had a bad record lately, drawing 2-2 away to Osasuna in the last round and still unable to get back on the winning track after leaving the Champions League. Barca faced an mediocre Elche in this campaign, which was a good opportunity for the Red and Blues to score three points. Affected by the injury, Barca's first team has eight players absent, namely Destin, Pique, Alves, Depay, Fati, Brycevet, Pedri and Roberto. Xavi can only sacrifice the tridents of Aboud, Dembele and Hutgra, and the Barca coach is really no one to use.
Before the match, Pedri appeared at the Camp Nou to present the Golden Boy trophy. Just three minutes into the opening, Hutegra received a clever pass from Garvey inside the penalty area, but the ball was blown off first due to offside. In the 16th minute, Dembele drove a corner kick from the left and Hutegra snatched the spot inside the penalty area to break the net, 1-0! It was Hutgra's debut goal in the Barca first team!
In the 18th minute, Garvey pulled the ball in the middle of the road and turned to dribble the ball forward, he threw off the 4-man defense and broke into the box with a low right-footed shot, the ball hit the inside of the upright and bounced into the net, 2-0! This is Garvey's debut goal in the Barca first team, and after the goal he kissed the Barca emblem madly and was very happy. The whole scoring process is the perfect embodiment of Garvey's personal ability, and in this 17-year-old rising star, people see Messi's shadow.
Barca managed to overpower their opponents at home, with Hutgra, Abde and Garvey all having good shooting chances since then, but failing to score again, and Barca temporarily took a 2-0 lead in the first half. In the 62nd minute, Morient inserted himself into the box on a counter-attack and he decisively fired a right-footed blast that pierced through Ter Stegen's ten-finger mark, 2-1! Just 1 minute later, Morient's high cross from the right was met by an unguarded Miria header that broke the net, 2-2! Elche tied the score with two goals in 2 minutes.
For the rest of the day, Harvey replaced Gonzalez and Phuket with full attack. In the 85th minute, Garvey inserted an inverted triangle pass into the penalty area, and substitute Gonzalez snatched a right-footed shot into the goal, 3-2! Harvey shouted from the sidelines, and his substitutions worked wonders! In the end, Barca scored three points in a 3-2 home win over Elche, and Xavi led the team back to the winning track.
Barca starting lineup: 1-Ter Stegen/4-Araujo, 24-Garcia, 15-Lenglet/21-De Jong, 5-Busquets, 30-Garvey, 18-Alba/7 Dembele, 29-Hutgra, 33-Abd