Alaves - Barcelona
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00:00Lovely scene, isn't it?
00:02This stadium, Mindy Zorota holding just shy of 20,000,
00:09and they've been hanging at the no-tickets-for-sales sign
00:13outside this stadium for the last few days.
00:18No tickets available for love nor money.
00:23Nagy Pena, of course, is going to continue in goal for Barcelona,
00:28despite the arrival of the Polish stopper Wojciech Szczesny.
00:34Not available to take his place today as we get underway
00:39with Alaves going from left to right.
00:43Barcelona in a changed-all green in the opposite direction.
00:50Will it be his left foot delivery? It will.
00:52Rafinha bending it in, and a flicked header, and who else?
00:57Mr Gowski, right on cue, and he can't stop scoring.
01:03And Hansi Flick's team are heading in an upward trajectory early here
01:09in Vitoria.
01:111-0 Barcelona.
01:16Rafinha's delivery so good, and Lewandowski did the rest.
01:22What a good cross, what a good movement from Lewandowski,
01:27and goal. He didn't fail.
01:36Goal number eight of this La Liga campaign.
01:40Coming off the beach, Mario, and he was enjoying his life in Marbella,
01:45and now suddenly back in training again, trying to get fit.
01:50Yes, that will be a good history.
01:52They will have to tell us how it works, because you are living the golden life,
01:56and now Barcelona, when a team like Barcelona calls you,
01:59you have to go and let's see.
02:01Some people are saying that he will be the starter,
02:04but let's see what Hansi Flick does.
02:07Well, Hansi Flick asked about Szczesny pre-game,
02:10saying, listen, too early for him to be involved.
02:13He was involved in full-team training on Friday,
02:17before the team left for Vitoria.
02:21But he's got the international break coming up as well
02:24to get himself fully fit again.
02:28Couldn't quite control it,
02:30as it descended inside the penalty area.
02:34Pedri already showing his tendency to get forward
02:39and sometimes spearhead this attack.
02:45And now he's got it.
02:47And now he's got it.
02:49And now he's got it.
02:51And now he's got it.
02:53And now he's got it.
02:59And now he's got it.
03:02And now he's got it.
03:20And the Menaki Pena sweeper act continues.
03:22for a penalty but this is not enough for a penalty kick everyone seemingly a little more sure a
03:29little more confident of their roles on the hands he flicked their role is defensive at the moment
03:33because carlos vicente is on his way vicente they're going to get it on the left foot has
03:38help outside tenaglia he's attempted cross or shot was denied and now rafinha has a huge hole
03:48in which to move into with tenaglia stranded upfield rafinha can go it alone
03:54and lewandowski once again the beneficiary
04:00it's so so simple for this barcelona team in full flow another deadly counter-attack
04:06another combination between rafinha and lewandowski and another goal for the master goal poacher
04:18foreign
04:30now was there a hint of offside it looked really close didn't it
04:35didn't wonder about lewandowski being just ahead of the defender the flag stayed down in
04:40a comfortable margin
04:52to be opened up again here lewandowski is on a hatchery and he's got it it is simply unbelievable
05:01somehow at the age of 36 robert lewandowski seems to be getting better and better three goals in
05:08just over half an hour here it's amazing performance from lewandowski the way he moves
05:15in the box he is 36 years old but this is still one of the best players in the world in the box
05:20aldrin for me with no doubt again it was so easy mario to open them up here this is what we were
05:32with no pressure eric garcia received the ball in front of the defense line and no pressure
05:39he can make the pass with the quality he has lewandowski good movement a good definition i
05:44don't i think luis garcia plaza will not be happy at all with the performance of this team of the
05:49defense and if they don't improve they can receive more and more goals well he still had an awful lot
05:58to do didn't he lewandowski even though he got him behind he was
06:03corner kick for barcelona there first of the game and an open man
06:06and pedry would love to have that back he was all alone yeah this is one
06:18drawing up this one
06:21well there was a collision inside the harvesh penalty area harvesh defender is down lots of
06:28eyes in the direction of inigo martinez who's going to be spoken to here by referee arias and
06:34a yellow card for the veteran center back yellow card for two center backs marinho also going in
06:41the book in this in this kind of situation that even the referee didn't see nothing he always
06:48want to yellow card in this occasion it's true that both were fighting and the ball was also
06:55was already not was even not in the air so
06:59the referee somebody tells something and yellow card to both of them
07:04and still the conversation continuing
07:12and again the run this time from kike and he's broken through kike's
07:15teeing it up trying to for connection the follow-up shots and a last-ditch effort denying
07:23this center he thought he'd scored i think
07:35let's see if it's a fight or not but it's what we are saying all the
07:39all the time the quality of the pass is not the same and they are failing on that
07:43because they are arriving to good situations but the last pass or the second last a very young
07:49xavi and puyo good team that's always important yeah now we're on the back from fortune breaking
07:57through his laminia mal little dummy on the keeper and severa wasn't buying it
08:08yeah it was almost too casual but i think the flag did come up as he said
08:13yeah
08:27what a chance what a chance again i think the flag would have rendered it null and void
08:35but can actually didn't know that he should have finished
08:42so
08:56but pretty close to perfect through 90 minutes here for barcelona three goals in the first half
09:02three from lewandowski and mario a three-point lead for hansi flixman at this stage of the competition
09:12so