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Kiki_City wins at the start of his career with Barcelona, by leading the Catalan team to a difficult victory over its host Granada 1-0, in the stage 20 of the Spanish League, which enabled him to regain the lead by goal difference from his rivals Real Madrid.
"Blaugrana" played its first match led by former Real Betis coach, who was hired last Monday, to succeed Ernesto Valverde, who was sacked on the same day after the disappointing exit from the semi-finals of the Super Cup in Jeddah, after the loss against Atletico Madrid 2-3 .
Club president Josep Bartomeo said on Tuesday that he brought the 61-year-old coach to give the team a positive boost in the middle of the season, as the Catalan club competes on three fronts: the domestic league and cup and the UEFA Champions League
In his first match as coach of the Catalan giant and in the absence of Uruguayan Luis Suarez and French Osman Dembele for injury, Cettin decided to give the opportunity to the 17-year-old promising, Anso Fati, who participated essentially for the fourth time this season.
He also returned to the German goalkeeper Mark-Andre Ter Stegen after recovering from injury, while Croatian Ivan Rakitic played in the middle as a result of the suspension of Dutchman Frankie de Young.
Armed with his distinguished record at home, he did not taste the defeat in 28 consecutive games in all competitions before Sunday's meeting, specifically since November 2018 when he fell against Real Betis led by Citin 3-4, Barcelona pressed from the beginning in search of scoring the goal that paves the way in front of him To avenge his Andalusian guest, he dropped him back (0-2) in the fifth stage.
However, Messi and his companions were unable to reach the window of Portuguese goalkeeper Roy Silva, despite the absolute field preference, which reached 82 percent in terms of possession in the first half, and passes that reached 503, according to "Opta" statistics.
The owners of the land did not pose a real threat until the last minute of the half with a shot from Messi after a pass from Jordi Alba, but the ball passed very close to the right post, similar to the first attempt also for the Argentine at the beginning of the second half (50).
Barcelona almost paid the price for his inability to translate his preference if luck did not interfere to save him by standing up the right post in the face of a far-flung shot by the Cameroonian Price Price Itqi (66).
Granada was then subjected to a blow to expel German Sanchez for obtaining a second warning (69), and Barcelona quickly took advantage of this to open the score through Messi after a wonderful team game between French Antoine Griezmann and Chilean Arturo Vidal, who attended the ball to the Argentine, then translated her last to his 14th goal in the top of the ranking Scorers (76).Messi
