Participant rankings as Blaugrana cruise to victory

Barcelona needed to climate an early storm on Saturday however finally cruised to a snug 3-0 victory over struggling Sevilla.

In entrance of a Sevilla crowd that had been audible of their frustrations in direction of their staff, Barcelona had been sluggish to get going however finally spent many of the recreation dominating the ball, with targets from Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski and Eric Garcia securing a 3rd consecutive victory for Xavi’s aspect.

The primary probability fell Sevilla’s manner. Former Actual Madrid man Isco mixed with Ivan Rakitic to feed the Croatian via on objective, however his stabbed effort was clawed off the road by Ronald Araujo.

Robert Lewandowski had a half-shout for a penalty waved away quickly after, but it surely was Sevilla who had been asking many of the questions and Erik Lamela noticed a Thirteenth-minute objective appropriately dominated out for offside by VAR.

Isco and Youssef En-Nesyri each received themselves via on objective, and though each had been caught offside, Sevilla had been clearly having fun with an excessive amount of house behind the Barcelona defence.

In opposition to the run of play, Barcelona received themselves forward. Lewandowski lobbed the goalkeeper however noticed his shot cleared off the road by Fernando, whose determined lunge landed proper on the pinnacle of Raphinha to nod dwelling.

The objective noticed Barcelona assume management of the sport and Ousmane Dembele turned more and more impactful on the left wing, but it surely was Lewandowski who bagged the second. Jules Kounde’s lengthy ball into the field was expertly plucked from the air and the Poland worldwide spun to volley dwelling.

They need to have had a 3rd to take into the break as Pedri’s cross discovered Kounde in acres of house, however the full-back skewed his header nicely extensive of the objective. Nearly straight after, Dembele fluffed one other wonderful probability, with Barcelona one way or the other solely 2-0 up on the interval.

Lamela had two efforts on objective contained in the opening minute of the primary half as Sevilla sought a direct route again into the sport, however Barcelona bagged their third within the fiftieth minute as Garcia poked dwelling following Kounde’s knock-back.

Bono did nicely to cease Lewandowski from getting one other, with the away aspect taking part in the match utterly at their very own tempo, though a handful of substitutions appeared to kill their menace on the counter.

However, the Barcelona strain stored coming and coming, with Frenkie de Jong losing a superb probability so as to add a fourth objective which even Sevilla would have admitted was deserved.

GK: Marc-Andre ter Stegen – 7/10 – Single-handedly stored Barcelona alive early on. Large saves to disclaim Rakitic and En-Nesyri earlier than the remainder of his team-mates awakened.

RB: Jules Kounde – 8/10 – Stayed again greater than Balde however made an important impression from deep as his looking out cross arrange Lewandowski completely. Actually spectacular each time he did get forwards.

CB: Ronald Araujo – 6/10 – Spectacular defending, clearing a shot off the road, however lacked composure with the ball at his toes. Slightly sloppy at instances.

CB: Eric Garcia – 6/10 – A shaky begin and lucky to not ship one or two targets earlier than he awakened. Good reactions for his objective.

LB: Alejandro Balde – 6/10 – Clearly slightly uncooked however put in a superb shift down Barcelona’s left.

DM: Sergio Busquets – 4/10 – Marked out the sport by Isco. Clearly a goal of Julen Lopetegui’s ways.

CM: Gavi – 8/10 – Did a lot soiled work. Not too busy on the ball however flew into each problem with actual enthusiasm. Performed an integral position in his aspect’s success.

CM: Pedri – 7/10 – Some wonderful passing. Excellent imaginative and prescient to maintain his aspect shifting ahead.

RW: Raphinha – 7/10 – Had quite a lot of enjoyable on the counter. Gifted the best objective he may have imagined.

ST: Robert Lewandowski – 8/10 – Charged round with actual vitality and dropped deep to attempt to make issues occur. Regardless of being so busy, nonetheless managed to seek out himself in the correct locations to attain. Wonderful.

Ousmane Dembele – 8/10 – Slightly too egocentric when he received in entrance of objective however did some excellent work to get their within the first place. Concerned in almost the whole lot constructive from Barcelona.

SUB: Sergi Roberto (55′ for Garcia) – 7/10 – Some wonderful motion up and down the correct wing. A extremely spectacular cameo.

SUB: Frenkie de Jong (64′ for Pedri) – 6/10 – Nice in midfield however actually clunky within the ultimate third. His limitations had been very apparent.

SUB: Ferran Torres (64′ for Dembele) – 6/10 – His lack of dynamism on the counter in comparison with Dembele was noticeable.

SUB: Jordi Alba (64′ for Balde) – 5/10 – Not nice. Lacked any composure on the ball and solely served to show why he’s now not a starter.

SUB: Ansu Fati (74′ for Lewandowski) – 5/10 – Discovered it very laborious to get going.

Supervisor: Xavi – 6/10 – Did not know what to do to cease Sevilla’s early strain and was largely bailed out by the standard in his aspect. Their effectivity on the counter was excellent however, maybe with midweek European motion in thoughts, his substitutions labored in opposition to that recreation plan.

Participant of the Match – Gavi