He broke her Curse at Camp Nou and… tightens the Champions League n Real Sociedad!
Striking once in each half, the Basques “shocked” the “Blaugrana” and left with great double (1-2) from Barcelona, thus ending a streak 24 consecutive defeats at the home of the Catalans at league level!
Imanol Alwathil’s team did khalastra at the fiesta of barcelona, leading the hosts to their first home defeat in this year’s La Liga! The score was opened by Merino just in the 5th minute after his steal and pass Charlotte. In the 72nd minute, the 27-year-old Norwegian went from creator to executioner, making it 2-0 for Sociedad in a phase-carbon with the first goal!
All Barcelona could do was reduce for the final 2-1 with Lewandowski in the 90th minute.
Somehow, Sociedad got their first double at the Camp Nou from the season… 1990/91 (!), establishing their presence in 4th place with 65 points, at +5 from the second Villarreal.
The program of the 35th matchday:
Friday 19/05
Cadiz – Valladolid 2-0
(70′, 76′ Pen. Bongoda)
Saturday 20/05
Girona-Villarreal 1-2
(24′ Lopez – 9′ Pino, 90+4′ Moreno)
Athletic Bilbao-Delta 2-1
(5′ Williams, 54′ Berenger – 50′ Larsen)
Getafe-Elche 1-1
(8′ El Haddadi – 45+1′ Boyer)
Almería-Mallorca 3-0
(12′, 42′, 58′ Lazaro)
Barcelona-Real Sociedad 1-2
(89′ Lewandowski – 5′ Merino, 72′ Sorloth)
Sunday 21/05
Rayo Vallecano-Espanyol (15:00)
Atletico Madrid-Osasuna (17:15)
Valencia-Real Madrid (19:30)
Sevilla-Betis (22:00)
The next (36th) matchday:
Tuesday 23/5
Celta-Girona (20:30)
Sociedad-Almeria
Valladolid-Barcelona (23:00)
Wednesday 24/5
Elche-Seville (20:30)
Real Madrid – Vallecano
Villarreal-Cádiz
Betis-Getafe (23:00)
Espanyol-Atletico Madrid
Thursday 25/5
Mallorca-Valencia (20:30)
Osasuna-Athletic Bilbao (22:30)
Source: Sport Fm
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