Recovered From Injury, Immediately Scores Goals, Ansu Fati Proves That He Deserves To Wear Number 10 At Barca

JAKARTA - Barcelona managed to beat Levante 3-0 in the seventh week of the Spanish League match at Camp Nou, Sunday night.

The Blaugrana's three goals were scored by Memphis Depay, Luuk de Jong and the club's new No.10 Ansu Fati, who has returned to play after being sidelined since November through injury.

Launching Antara, Barcelona played attacking since the match started. They immediately got a golden opportunity to score in the 6th minute through a penalty kick.

Depay dropped Levante midfielder, Nemanja Radoja in the forbidden box. The Dutch striker then successfully carried out his duties perfectly and made the home team 1-0.

In the 14th minute, Barcelona doubled their lead after Sergino Dest stabbed in from the left flank before giving the ball to Luuk de Jong who found space to shoot from the center of the box.

He then fired a right footed shot that found the net goalkeeper Aitor Fernandes. The score became 2-0 to Barcelona.

Depay almost scored the second goal of this match through his attempted kick in the 36th minute. Unfortunately, the ball can still be saved by the Levante goalkeeper.

Depay threatened again seven minutes later with a header in front of goal. However, Aitor was again able to parry the ball and only fruitful corner kick.

There were no additional goals until halftime. Barcelona closed the first half with a 2-0 advantage over Levante.

Barcelona did not relax their attack in the second half. Dest's long-range kick in the 70th minute could still be anticipated by Aitor.

In the 81st minute, Barcelona entered Ansu Fati to replace Luuk de Joong. This is Fati's first appearance after suffering an injury in November last year.

It didn't take long for Fati to score. In the 91st minute, he successfully struck the ball into the Levante goal with a kick from outside the penalty box to the bottom left of the goal, which tricked Aitor.

Fati's goal ended the match with a 3-0 win for Barcelona.

These results bring Barcelona up to fifth position standings with 12 points. Meanwhile, Levante stuck in 17th with four points.

Lineup:

Barcelona (4-3-3): Marc-Andre ter Stegen; Oscar Mingueza (Ronald Araujo 81'), Gerard Pique, Eric Garcia, Sergino Dest (Clement Lenglet 89'); Pablo Gavira (Yusuf Demir 82'), Sergio Busquets, Nico Gonzalez; Philippe Coutinho (Ricard Puig 59'), Luuk de Jong (Ansu Fati 81'), Memphis Depay.

Levante (4-3-3): Aitor Fernendez, Shkodran Mustafi (Rober 76'), Sergio Postigo, Jorge Miramon; Gonzalo Melero, Pepelu (Nikola Vukcevic 69'), Nemanja Radoja (Pablo Martinez 55'), Jorge de Frutos (Alejandro Cantero 69'); Daniel Gomez (Jose Luis Morales 55'), Roger.