BARCELONA.- He FC Barcelona took advantage of the defeat of real Madrid In the previous task to snatch the leadership of the Spanish League thanks to this Sunday’s victory over the Real Sociedadwith comeback included (2-1), in a duel of the 7th day in which it reappeared Lamine Yamal After your injury.
Álvaro Odriozola had advanced the Basque team in the 31st minute, but the Catalans turned the scoreboard with two goals, signed by the Frenchman Jules Kundé (43) and the Polish Robert Lewandowski (59).
The Catalans could have expanded the account in 75, but Yamal was annulled out of the game, very active in his first game since he received his second Kopa Trophy on Monday for the best young man of the last season and that he had to settle on this occasion with the assistant role of Lewandowski.
Yamal, who returned from the stay with the Spanish team of the beginning of the month with problems in the pubis, returned in this match after being lost due to injury the last four commitments of his team.
“We are all very happy for Lamine’s return because we will need him,” Koundé told Movistar television.
Lewandowski sent to the crossbar in 84, a minute after the Japanese Take Kubo also sent the crossbar for the Real, and Barcelona could not breathe relieved until the final beep.
With 19 points (six victories, a draw), Barça, defender of the title, now takes the leaders of the classification with an advantage about Real Madrid (2nd, 18 points), which on Saturday received a slap (5-2) in the derby against Atlético de Madrid (5th, 12 points).
Waiting for the PSG
Of the nine official games played by Barcelona at this start of the season, Hansi Flick’s team has won eight. He only escaped the victory on the third day of LaLiga, when he tied 1-1 in the Rayo Vallecano field.
“Being a leader is fine, but the road is still long. Now it’s time to defend that position. We had very little rest after the last game (Triunfo on Thursday in Oviedo), so I especially value it,” said German Flick at his press conference.
Sunday’s game marked the return of Barcelona to the Montjuic stadium, after two games played at the Johan Cruyff stadium in Sant Joan Despí.
The Barca team is still waiting to use its enclosure, the Camp Nou, of works in recent months. In Montjuic, heart of the 1992 Olympic Games, he will receive the European champion, Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, in the star clash of the second day of the Champions League.
Under Barça’s sticks was Wojciech Szczesny, replacing Joan García, injured this week. The veteran Polish goalkeeper had merit interventions, especially one in 61 before Mikel Oyarzabal, which would have meant the tie to two.
The Royal Society, with only one triumph in this league, adds only 5 points and is seventeenth, dangerously peeked to the descent positions.
