Barcelona, which successfully brought in a number of strong reinforcements in the off-season, was once full of ambitions for the new season, but since the beginning of the season, it has been difficult to win against strong teams such as Bayern, Inter and Real Madrid, which has blocked them in both La Liga and the Champions League, and after losing to Bayern Munich in the last round, Barcelona has completely bid farewell to the Champions League round of 16, which also makes the league title their most important goal this season, but to surpass the galaxy Real Madrid, they must win more games in the league. This weekend's 12th round of La Liga kicked off, Barcelona traveled to take on Bateri Valencia, where Barça won 3-1 and 4-1 in last season's home-and-away clash between the two teams, with six points from both legs, and now their squad has further improved, which makes fans optimistic about their victory away! Barcelona also created a lot of chances in attack after the game, but they were wasted by Fathi and Torres, until the final minute, Lewandowski scored to help Barca beat Valencia 1-0 away!
In this game, Xavi still started Lewandowski, the absolute core of the team's attack, and on his two wings were Fathi and Dembele, hoping that the three of them could carry the team's offensive banner, but Fathi's performance in the first half was undoubtedly very disappointing to Barca fans, after the start of the game, Barcelona firmly controlled the ball at their feet, but in the first half they did not create too many threatening attacking opportunities, a total of only 5 shots, most of which were wasted by Fathi.
In the 11th minute, Fathi successfully countered offside and got the opportunity to face the goalkeeper single-handedly, but unfortunately his shot was defused by Valencia goalkeeper, in the 22nd minute, although Fathi received Lewandowski's pass, he broke the opponent's goal, but the offside was canceled first, in the 28th minute Fathi headed the ball off the deflection when no one was watching, and 1 minute later, the left side dribbled into the box and shot low and once again deviated from the target, seeing that his teammates were overwhelmed, Lewandowski pressed two defenders to shake his head in the 42nd minute, but bad luck, The ball hit the post and was ejected, and both sides achieved nothing in the first half and returned to the dressing room with a 0-0 scoreline.
After the start of the second half, Barcelona, who pressed heavily on the attack, was sneaked by Valencia in the opening game, Correa sent a cross on the right, and Almeida flanked the goal at the back point, but the referee looked back at the VAR and determined that Valencia's Andre had a handball in the penalty area and canceled the goal, and Barcelona escaped.
Then Xavi replaced the underperforming Dembele and Fathi, hoping that Rafinha and Ferran Torres, who came on as substitutes, could break Valencia's iron barrel formation, but Torres did not give Xavi hope, but directly made Xavi despair, in the 85th minute Barcelona created a very good chance to break the goal, Pedri's cross, let Torres get the opportunity to half-empty, but unfortunately he kicked and wasted the opportunity to quasi-finale, fortunately, Barca and Lewandowski, Rafinha sent a cross in the 93rd minute, Lewandowski scored from the back to help Barca defeat Valencia.
After the game, many Barcelona fans said that Fathi did not match the team's No. 10 shirt, and Ferran Torres was directly not worthy of Barcelona's uniform, and Barça needed to make major adjustments to the lineup if they wanted to return to the ranks of the top powers!