{"id":824501,"date":"2026-07-25T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824501\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:03:12","slug":"ebrima-tunkara-and-ibrahim-diarra-score-in-barcelona-pre-season-friendly-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824501\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebrima Tunkara and Ibrahim Diarra score in Barcelona pre-season friendly win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona took on Club Esportiu Europa in a friendly training match on Friday evening and came away with a 4-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The two teams played behind closed doors, which means details are a little thin on the ground, but we do know Hansi Flick picked a very youthful team for the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s a look at the team:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona starting XI: Wojciech Szcz\u0119sny; Hector Fort, Andreas Christensen, Gerard Mart\u00edn, Jofre Torrents; Guille Fern\u00e1ndez, Brian Fari\u00f1as; Roony Bardghji, Ibrahim Diarra, Hamza Abdelkarim and Shane Kluivert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ibrahim Diarra opened the scoring for Barcelona, while Hector Fort added the second goal on the half hour. Club Esportiu Europa then halved the deficit before half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Flick made plenty of changes at the break with Marc-Andre ter Stegen, \u00c1lex Gonz\u00e1lez, Xavi Espart, Toni Fernandez, Marc Casado, Tommy Marques and Orian Goren, among those to arrive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">More goals followed as Ebrima Tunkara made it 3-1 before Alex Gonzalez completed the scoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona\u2019s next pre-season friendly will be next week in England when they travel to St George\u2019s Park for a training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona took on Club Esportiu Europa in a friendly training match on Friday evening and came away with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[39548,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-824501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-preseason","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}