Young striker Ansu Fati gets late winner as Barca beat All Stars
Young striker Ansu Fati got a late victor as Barcelona endure a panic to beat Dwight Yorke's A-League All Stars in a 3-2 thrill ride before 70 000 fans in Sydney on Wednesday.
The Catalan giants just showed up in Australia on Tuesday morning on a whistlestop 48-hour visit, scarcely a day subsequent to finishing their association season with a 2-0 misfortune to Villarreal, which saw them finish 13 focuses unfastened of champions Real Madrid.
They showed not many impacts from the long excursion to turn on the style for a boisterous favorable to Barca swarm, overwhelming the main half and going into the break 1-0 ahead after French striker Ousmane Dembele clinically completed in the 34th moment.
Be that as it may, the All Stars shocked them with two goals in eight final part minutes, before Xavi Hernandez's side revitalized to retake control with strikes from Adama Traore and Fati.
"Astonishing air, five goals today, they played really well, I need to praise them," said coach Xavi.
"I think we played an intense an hour and a half, I think we played really well. We surrendered two goals, this is football, and afterward we returned so an excellent test for us. I'm exceptionally pleased."
After an intriguing prize less season, Xavi brought areas of strength for an and a large group of top names began including commander Sergio Busquets, veteran Dani Alves, and the disrupted Dembele, who might have played his last game for the club.
It was continuously going to be an intense errand for Yorke's hurriedly met group, and with the previous Manchester United striker uninvolved for his most memorable significant coaching position.
"To see the fans, that was inconceivable," said Yorke. "It was an extraordinary exhibition by the fellows, I am so satisfied.
"A portion of the young men shocked me considering we just had two days together in planning. To put on an act like this, I was unable to be more glad."
The two sides had early possibilities with Barca teen Alejandro Balde testing goalkeeper Filip Kurto at the close to post in the 6th moment as the guests immediately sunk into a free-streaming cadence.
Dembele went close and Gavi ought to have improved when Alves found him with a cross as the possibilities started stacking up.
The advancement at last accompanied Gavi taking care of Dembele subsequent to blocking a pass and the Frenchman boring the ball into the right-hand corner.
However, the All Stars came out terminating in the final part.
Reno Piscopo packaged the ball into the net two minutes after the restart, and they found Barcelona snoozing again six minutes after the fact with a counter-assault that Adama Traore - who has a similar name as the Barca winger - got done with a tap-in.
Shaken, the Spaniards reset and Barcelona's Traore made it 2-2 in the 72nd moment with a horrendous shot that was saved yet streamed over the line.
Fati got the champ five minutes after the fact, twisting the ball into the net after great work from Antonio Aranda. The All Stars almost destroyed the party, Garang Kuol shaking the post with three minutes left.
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