Barcelona On Fire, Partying 4-0 At Home To Mallorca

Lionel Messi in action among Mallorcan players (Twitter @fcbarcelona)

JAKARTA - Arturo Vidal, Martin Braithwaite, Jordi Alba, and Lionel Messi immediately went on fire. The four Barcelona players scored against Real Mallorca in La Liga continued on Saturday, June 14 local time.

It has been three months since leaders Los Blaugrana last played due to the competition being suspended due to the COVID-19 incident. However, it took them less than two minutes to defend the throne temporarily through Vidal's header.

Braithwaite then netted his first goal for the Catalunya club eight minutes before the break. This match also marks the return of Luis Suarez from injury.

Entering the 79th minute, Alba widened Barca's goal margin before the match was sealed by Messi with a score of 4-0 during injury time. With this result, Barca are five points ahead of Real Madrid, who just played on Sunday night.

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There were no signs of rusting from Quique Setien's men when Barca took the lead after 65 seconds of action.

Frenkie de Jong 'robbed' the ball which was controlled by Real Madrid loan player Takefusa Kubo in midfield. He then sent it into the penalty box which was immediately met by Alba's cross to pass it on to Vidal.

Barca came close to ending the game early as Braithwaite and Messi came close to scoring before Mallorca came back.

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Kubo looked intent on making amends as he forced Marc-Andre ter Stegen to make a brilliant save from the edge of the area before being cleared again with a low shot.

But Barca doubled their lead just before the break, Braithwaite clinically sending the ball into the net after working closely with De Jong and Messi.

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Mallorca almost found his first goal shortly after the second half had begun. However, Ante Budimir's effort always went wide of Ter Stegen's goal.

Setien went on to play Suarez, the first time since January with a knee injury. The presence of the Uruguayan striker made it easier for Messi to arrange matches where he was able to provide mature passes to Braithwaite and Ronald Araujo. Unfortunately their efforts were thwarted by goalkeeper Manolo Reina and the post.

Messi did not make the second mistake in assisting. Cleverly, he flicked the ball upwards for Alba who was on-side. He executes the ball at the near post.

There was enough time for Messi to get on the scoresheet last night. He realized it during injury time when he entered the penalty box and fired the ball with his right foot into the Mallorca goal.