Araújo brought Barça back on track ahead of Olympiakos and Real!

Barcelona avoided a huge disaster in the final and returned to the three points!

Three days before they welcome him Olympic in “Montjuic” (21/10, 19:45) for the 3rd matchday of the League Phase of the Champions League, the “blaugrana” flirted with their third consecutive goal in all competitions against the militant Girona. However, his team Hansie Flick managed to break the Gordian bond in the third minute of stoppage time with the “golden” substitution by Araujo, who wrote the final 2-1!

With this victory, Barca moved up – even temporarily – to top of the La Liga table with 22 points after nine matches, they are +1 ahead of Real Madrid, who have played less games.

Barcelona came into the game strongly and cashed in on their game advantage only in the 13th minute, when after some excellent movement of the ball outside the Girona area, Yamal from the right passed to Pedriwho carried the ball into the area and he beat Gazzaniga 1-0 with a drift shot.

?????? PEDRI OPENS THE SCORING FOR BARCELONA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barcelona 1-0 Girona.pic.twitter.com/S3imR68ZIL

— Tekkers Foot (@tekkersfoot) October 18, 2025

The visitors’ response was immediate and highly impressive, since seven minutes later, in their first phase of the match, Axel Witzel with an incredible scissor from the penalty spot he wrote 1-1 in the 20th minute, after the “blaugrana” failed to clear the ball from a corner kick. In the 25th minute, in fact, Girona almost made the upset, when Porto saw the shot that they tried to stop at the right post!

?????? AXEL WITSEL HAS EQUALIZED FOR GIRONA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barcelona 1-1 Girona.pic.twitter.com/OUJkSxsv8E

— Tekkers Foot (@tekkersfoot) October 18, 2025

The sequel belonged entirely to Hansi Flick’s side, with the German coach seeing both the Rashford in the 30th minute, as well as Fermin Lopez in the 52nd, to mark the beam and to be deprived of the second goal. As time went on, Barcelona turned up the heat. having camped in the Girona areawith Gazzaniga averting the danger on not a few occasions. Finally, the suffocating pressure of the hosts paid off in the third minute of stoppage time, with Araujowho had come on as a substitute in the 82nd minute, wrote the 2-1 final with a close-up shot from De Jong.

The schedule for the 9th matchday:

Friday 17/10

Oviedo-Espaniol 0-2

(70′ Quique Garcia, 82′ Miia)

Saturday 18/10

Seville-Mallorca 1-3

(16′ Vargas – 67′ Muriki, 72′, 77′ Joseph)

Barcelona-Girona 2-1

(13′ Pedri, 90+3′ Araujo – 20′ Witzel)

Villarreal-Real Betis (19:30)

Atletico Madrid-Osasuna (22:00)

Sunday 19/10

Elche-Athletic Bilbao (15:00)

Celta-Real Sociedad (17:15)

Levante-Rayo Vallecano (19:30)

Getafe-Real Madrid (22:00)

Monday 20/10

Alavés-Valencia (22:00)