Robert Lewandowski scored a hat trick in the second half this April 29 to achieve victory for Barcelona at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium once morest Valencia (4-2), who played outnumbered since added time in the first half due to the expulsion of Mamardashivili for a handball outside the area.
The Barça team, which fell behind on the scoreboard at half-time following Hugo Duro and Pepelu (penalty) They overturned Fermín López’s initial goal, tied in a corner kick headed by Lewandowski and, following much insistence, confirmed the comeback in another corner finished high by the Pole, who He sentenced with a direct free kick in added time.
With his second hat-trick since joining Barcelona, striker Robert Lewandowski reached 16 goals this season in LaLiga EA Sports and tied Ante Budimir (Osasuna) in third place in the top scorer rankings.
The Polish striker was decisive for his team, which won 4-2 following finishing the first half behind on the scoreboard (1-2). Lewandowski, with three hits in the second half, completed the comeback of the Barcelona, which recovered second position in the League.
Lewandowski had not scored three goals in the same game since last season, when on September 7, 2022 he celebrated a hat trick in a Champions League group stage match once morest Plzen that Barcelona won 5-1.
Fermín López also scored, who reached five goals, and for Valencia Hugo Duro, who reached 13 to tie in that position with Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) and Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid). His teammate, Pepelu, scored her fifth goal of the season from a penalty and reached half a dozen hits.
Ter Stegen’s mistake and the controversy of the second goal
Although Barcelona ended up taking the result and the three points, which allow them to add 73 points and remain in second position in LaLiga with five games left to play, they did have some scares once morest Valencia, especially in the first half when the visiting team overturned the initial 1-0 deficit.
The 1-1 scoreline, in particular, was hard for Barcelona since it occurred in a completely isolated action. The German goalkeeper Ter Stegen came out of his area to clear a ball that Hugo Duro was trying to catch, but the goalkeeper was confident, he preferred not to break the ball and opted for plenty of control.
The play did not work out as the rebound of the ball favored the Valencian attacker who only had to push the round into the back of the unprotected Barça goal.
Already in the second half, when Lewandowski scored his personal first (Barsa’s second), controversy broke out as many argued that Fermín’s position at the time of the Pole’s shot interfered with the Valencia goalkeeper’s view and for the same reason The action had to be considered offside and the goal had to be disallowed.
However, on the field of play the central judge did not perceive it that way and the goal did count.
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