Barcelona were sentenced to a third progressive home loss as Alvaro Garcia's initial strike got a paramount 1-0 triumph for Rayo Vallecano at Camp Nou in La Liga.
The evening could never have gotten off to a more terrible beginning for Xavi's side, with the guests staggering the home group inside six minutes.
Sergino Dest - supplanting the harmed Dani Alves - was discovered snoozing when Garcia made a dart inside. The winger was found by Isi Palazon and, with just Marc-Andre ter Stegen to beat, he controlled and directed a beautiful rifled finish past the Barcelona No.1.
Barcelona compromised a quick reaction through both Jordi Alba and Ronald Araujo, and they practically benefitted from a Rayo blunder when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang shut down Rayo goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski on the half-hour mark.
Frenkie de Jong got the free ball and taken care of Ousmane Dembele, however Aubameyang couldn't redirect the Frenchman's scaled back towards goal.The crossbar was then left shaking as Barcelona looked for an adjuster before the span. Gavi rushed to gather the free ball on the edge of the region from a corner, twisting his work off the underside of the crossbar where Ferran Torres' bounce back was decreed to be offside.The away side should have multiplied their lead without further ado into the last part when Palazon met an insidious Francisco Garcia conveyance. Notwithstanding, Alba was skillfully positioned to shut the work from five yards out.
Barca battled to slice through the guests after the span, and it took until the 70th moment for the hosts to design a significant endeavor at objective. Dembele's cross tracked down Memphis in the punishment region, however Nikola Maras bravely hurled himself infront of the shot from only six yards out.
Memphis then, at that point, stung the palms of Stole Dimitrievski in the Rayo objective with a scratching exertion from range as Adama Traore compromised with his speed off the seat.
The previous Wolves man coasted into the punishment enclose injury time prior to twisting his shot towards objective with the beyond his foot, however Dimitrievski was equivalent to his work as Rayo, by means of a brave goalline block on Dembele's work, gripped on for victory.GK: Marc-Andre ter Stegen - 5/10 - Could do practically nothing to forestall Rayo's objective. Wiped up behind Barcelona's high protective line when required.
RB: Sergino Dest - 1/10 - Culpable for Rayo's opener. Battled enormously on the two sides of the ball before he was snared at the stretch.
RCB: Ronald Araujo - 5/10 - The main wholesaler of the ball out of safeguard in the principal half. Instructed the Barcelona safeguard well.
LCB: Eric Garcia - 4/10 - Slow to move the ball in the main half. Further developed when Xavi moved to a back three and he could punch goes through the lines on his more grounded foot.
LB: Jordi Alba - 8/10 - Showed admirable undertaking down the left hand side, motoring into hazardous regions in the last third while being dynamic protectively.
CM: Sergio Busquets - 4/10 - Rayo smothered his impact in midfield, with the Spaniard getting a charge out of less contacts than he'd conventionally be familiar with.
CM: Frenkie de Jong - 3/10 - Played on the edges of the game, frequently losing his actual duels and permitting his passes to wander off. Looked baffled to be removed before the hour mark.
CM: Gavi - 6/10 - Unfortunate with his work which struck the bar in the principal half. Continually moved into perilous situations hidden therein, yet maybe missing the mark on conviction to take the game by the mess of the neck a la Pedri.
RW: Ousmane Dembele - 6/10 - Very much the risk individual for Barcelona, despite the fact that his last ball went between the splendid and the astounding.
ST: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - 2/10 - Wasn't at his most honed inside the punishment region, while his connection up play was especially drowsy.
LW: Ferran Torres - 2/10 - Struggled to engage in procedures with Barcelona thinking their assaults down the right. Snared before the hour mark.
SUB: Clement Lenglet (46' for Dest) - 5/10 - Barca's circulation out of guard worked on after his presentation at half time.
SUB: Nico (59' for de Jong) - 5/10 - Played a marginally held job close by Busquets notwithstanding Barca expecting bodies to be tossed forward.
SUB: Memphis (59' for Torres) - 5/10 - Denied by a chivalrous square from Maras in the final part as Barca pushed for a leveler.
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