Seventh victory in seven games for FC Barcelona, which is leading the Spanish championship.
Barça received seven out of seven. Once again led by their scorer Robert Lewandowski, FC Barcelona continued their perfect start to the season on Wednesday, securing a seventh victory in seven Liga matches against Getafe (1-0).
With his seventh goal in as many matches, the Polish striker scored the only goal of the game in the 19th minute, taking advantage of a mistake by the opposing goalkeeper David Soria on a good cross from Jules Koundé (1-0), allowing the blaugrana club (1st, 21 points) to pull four points ahead of their great rival Real Madrid (2nd, 17 points), who won against Alavès on Tuesday (3-2). Getafe, still without a win this season, remains 19th with just four small points.
Koundé decisive
Barça, which had just come off three impressive displays in the league (7-0, 4-1, 5-1), delivered a less flamboyant performance this time but managed to control their advantage, despite a starting eleven still far from ideal without Frenkie De Jong, Gavi, Dani Olmo, or Ronald Araujo, all in recovery. The three key players of the early season, Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal, and Raphinha, all had opportunities to extend the lead but were thwarted by Soria (32nd, 59th, 71st) or grazed the crossbar (71st).
“That can happen sometimes… You can’t always win by a wide margin. The important thing is that we still created chances and took three more points, as Getafe is always a difficult team to maneuver,” said Jules Koundé to Movistar+. “We played a good match, we controlled the game and had chances to score more, even if we couldn’t convert them today,” added the French international defender.
In his first start since Marc-André Ter Stegen’s serious knee injury, his replacement Iñaki Peña was not troubled, while Catalan media reported in the late afternoon an agreement with Pole Wojciech Szczesny. The former Juventus goalkeeper would be inclined to come out of his announced retirement this summer at 34 to cover for the German’s injury until the end of the season.
This seventh matchday of La Liga continues Thursday with Atlético Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann traveling to Vigo (9:00 PM), and the matches between Las Palmas and Real Betis and the clash between Espanyol Barcelona and Villarreal (7:00 PM).
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