BARCELONA 2-0 CADIZ : PEDRI AND FERRAN TORRES SCORE LATE AS CATALANS GO PAST PLUCKY OPPONENTS IN SCRAPPY HOME OPENER
Late goals from Pedri and Ferran Torres helped Barcelona beat Cadiz 2-0 in a rather bad situation. It was the team’s first game at Montjuic as the Camp Nou was undergoing renovation and Cadiz made it difficult for the Catalan side, who have seen Real Madrid pick up two wins from two on Sunday. Saturday. Barca had to work hard but finally found a goal.
Barcelona left him late to finally score their first La Liga goal of the season, as Pedri picked up Ilkay Gundogan’s deft cross to push past a determined Cadiz team and seal the victory. with a beautiful goal from Ferran Torres.
Led by inspirational goalkeeper Jeremias Ledesma, the well-trained visitors managed to knock Barca out once again after opening the season with a 0-0 draw against Getafe, with title rivals Real Madrid. pressured early on by taking a 2-2 lead with a win at Almería on Saturday.
It will be the first time in 50 years that Barcelona have not scored in the opening two games of the La Liga season, but Pedri overtook Gundogan then sneaked into the box and slipped to put the striker’s back pass. Germany into the net. . Then, in injury time, Robert Lewandowski passed for Torres to score the second.