Marc Carmona’s team made a winning start to their season at the Palau, getting their second win of the season by thrashing Azkar Lugo with a marvellous second half display.
Match stats
FC BARCELONA ALUSPORT, 9
AZKAR LUGO, 0
FC Barcelona Alusport (1+8): Paco Sedano, Jordi Torras (1), Ari Santos (1), Lin,
Fernandåo (2) –starting five-, Wilde (1), Igor (1), Gabriel, Sergio Lozano (1), Javi
Rodríguez (2), Lin, Saad, Cristian.
Azkar Lugo (0+0): Óscar Iglesias, Juanpe, Kiko, Aranburu, Xuxa –starting
five-, Ossorio, Diego, Jandri, Jhony, César, Jacobo, Iago Rodríguez.
Goals: 1-0, Fernandão (3'); 2-0, Ari Santos (21'); 3-0, Wilde (24'); 4-0,
Fernandão (25'); 5-0, Sergio Lozano (28'); 6-0, Javi Rodríguez (29'); 7-0, Javi Rodríguez (29');
8-0, Igor (30'); 9-0, Jordi Torras (30')
Referees: Gracia Marín and Munez Carpintero (Madrid). Yellow cards for Diego and
Juanpe. Red for Jhony.
Venue: Palau Blaugrana. 1.012 spectators
Barça Alusport made their Palau debut with a goalfest against Azkar Lugo – scoring eight in
the second half after going in just one up at the break.
Season opens at the Palau
Before the game, the youth and children’s teams were presented to
the crowd, whilst homage was paid to last year’s top keeper Cristian. The team began by
dominating the game from the off, with the strength of Torras, the great form of Ari,
Fernandão’s goal hunger and an electric Lin, Barça never gave their opponents a chance to get
into the game.
Fernandão got the first goal, after picking up a pass from Lin for the opener early on,
though that didn’t open the door for more goals, despite the dominance of the home team,
whilst the visitors packed their defence and looked to pounce on any mistake Barça might make. When
that did happen though, Paco Sedano was equal to Jhony’s efforts.
Barça certainly had their chances – with Oscar Iglesias making plenty of saves with
Saad and Javi Rodriguez both bringing out the best from the Azkar keeper, who almost single
handedly kept his team in the game. With the score just 1-0 atth ebreak, it looked as if we might
be in for a tighter game than expected.
Flood gates open
However, once the early second goal was put away by Ari Santos on 21
minutes, the flood gates opened. Wilde got the third three minutes later with an individual goal.
Azkar looked beaten now and Fernandão made it four before Lozano joined in after being set up by
Fernandão, whilst a minute later Javi Rodríguez combined with Ari for the sixth and then the
seventh from a free kick before Igor and Jordi Torras rounded the scoring off .
A great start then, though even the impressive 9-0 which well represented the home
team’s superiority could have been greater.