Settled down<\/p>\n
Both teams were more stable in the second half, with far fewer chances in comparison to the haywire first period.<\/p>\n
Barcelona dominated the ball and Celta, despite trailing, were forced to sit back.<\/p>\n
Lewandowski completed his hat-trick with a header from Rashford’s corner after 73 minutes to give his team a two-goal cushion.<\/p>\n
It was the striker’s seventh league goal of the season in just four starts, showing his finishing quality has not diminished at the age of 37 despite an injury-hit start to the campaign.<\/p>\n
Rashford, on loan from Manchester United, has helped fill in for the injured Raphinha by providing seven La Liga assists.<\/p>\n
Yamal broke free and might have scored Barca’s fifth late on but his low shot hit the post after beating Radu.<\/p>\n
On a negative note for Barca, De Jong was dismissed in stoppage time for a second yellow card as he trod on Iago Aspas’ foot.<\/p>\n
Barcelona’s victory followed a run of just two away wins in their last 10 league games at Balaidos and offered Flick and his players a confidence boost before the upcoming international break.<\/p>\n
“We have two weeks to disconnect now but I hope when we come back we play a lot better, it’s the perfect moment to change things that aren’t working,” said Lewandowski.<\/p>\n
“Flick asked if I needed a rest and I said no… I felt very good physically today and I’m very happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Settled down Both teams were more stable in the second half, with far fewer chances in comparison to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,16261,16252,105],"class_list":["post-125109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-la-liga","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}