Ronald Araujo saved the tie for a Barcelona that ratified its disaster

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Barcelona saved a draw (1-1) of their stadium towards Granada with a objective in extremis by Uruguayan Ronald Araujo (90), yesterday on the shut of the fifth day of the League, however the Barça workforce confirmed its horrible second, remaining 5 factors behind the chief Actual Madrid.

As quickly because it began, Barcelona needed to row towards the present. After a nook, Sergio Busquets misplaced the ball within the space and Sergio Escudero served on the far submit, the place the Portuguese Domingos Duarte appeared to place Granada forward (2).

Barcelona equalized with a header from Araujo, their greatest offensive weapon (5 headers within the match), making the most of a cross from Gavi, the 17-year-old youth participant who had entered the second half.

With this tie, Barcelona, ​​which six days in the past started the Champions League with a 3-0 defeat on the Camp Nou towards Bayern Munich, is seventh with 8 factors, 5 behind Actual Madrid and three behind Atlético (2nd).

Ten minutes following the primary objective, Venezuelan Darwin Machis gained a battle with Serginho Dest on the left wing and his cross was completed off first by Jorge Molina over the crossbar.

The perfect Barça likelihood within the first half got here with time elapsed (45) when Araujo linked with a fantastic header, however ran right into a flight from the Portuguese goalkeeper Luís Maximiano.

Within the second half, Barça coach Ronald Koeman introduced on Dutch middle ahead Luuk De Jong, with the purpose of having the ability to assault Granada with lateral facilities and benefit from his ending capacity.

However once more it was Araujo who scored with one other highly effective header that went near one of many posts (56).

At this level Barcelona was managing the duel, shifting the ball with ease and testing Granada, unable to get out, however stable as a defensive block.

With quarter-hour left, Koeman introduced on center-back Gerard Piqué to play as a ahead and, along with De Jong, improve the excessive stress within the Granada space.

Exactly the latter completed off with a header from contained in the small space and did so over the crossbar, when it appeared inconceivable to overlook (79).

And naturally, Araujo received it proper on the fifth time to offer a slight respite to his coach, who in some media locations them out of the membership quickly.