Barcelona win their first pre-season game as they beat Iniesta's Vissel Kobe thanks to Pérez's double.
Match Report
Barcelona’s preseason tour of Japan ended on a high as the Blaugrana recovered from their loss to Chelsea with a 2-0 win against Vissel Kobe on Saturday.
Ernesto Valverde once again used two different teams, and both played well against Andrés Iniesta, Sergi Samper and David Villa’s side.
Carles Pérez was especially good, and he gave Barça the lead after a beautiful solo run, a one-two with Malcom and a nice finish between the keeper’s legs. And adds an another just before the end of the game.
The goals came in the second half, but the overall level from the two Barça teams was pretty good at this point of preseason.
Match Events
4' CLOSE! Iniesta's shot wide out
12' Unbelievable! What a miss from Puig!
35' CLOSE! Rakitic's long shot inches wide!
40' NICE TRY! Iniesta's shot saved
59' GOAL! Vissel Kobe 0-1 Barcelona (Perez)
71' CLOSE! Alena misses a golden chance!
86' GOAL! Vissel Kobe 0-2 Barcelona (Perez)
Line-ups
Vissel Kobe XI: Iniesta, David Villa, H. Yamaguchi, K. Ogawa, Dankler, Samper, R. Hatsuse, S. Fujitani, D. Maekawa, D. Miya, Y. Goke
Subs: D. Nasu, K. Ogi, D. Nishi, Wellington, W. Hashimoto, J. Tanaka, H. Watanabe, K. Yoshimaru, L. Osaki, A. Masuyama, Y. Nakasaka, T. Yasui, Y. Kobayashi, G. Ito
Barcelona XI: I. Rakitić, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, A. Griezmann, M. ter Stegen, Rafinha, Lenglet, Semedo, R. Araújo, Riqui Puig, Álex Collado
Subs: Neto, S.Roberto, S. Umtiti, Aleñà, O. Dembélé, Malcom, Oriol Busquets, Carles Pérez, Iñaki Peña, F. de Jong, Monchu, Guillem Jaime, J. Todibo
FrancisTochukwu
1956
SOMEONE give Perez a place in the first team already!!! He's on fire!!!
footballworldfresh
330
This match was mixed feeling both interesting and boring 1.Griezmann was brilliant with his fine touches but was unfortunate wasn't on score sheet.. 2.puig was brilliant as always...fine passes,good touches and very good with rondo play... he has very high chances of being de jong better.. 3.Collado was very good ...had impressive passes and tackles and had good attacking ability.. 4.Umtiti was great ...he is clearly fighting hard for his spot and may probably succeeded.. 5.Rakitic was great ...he clearly doesn't want to leave.. 6. Rafinha was the best this night along probably Perez 7. That Aroujo and Todibo was very impressive... I don't see Barcelona in need of any defender to cover anything.. 8. Alena was off his game so was Perez until the goals Well in summary if LA mesia was a team in LA liga A ...they will never relegate ...they are too good for that their league... Well I think Barcelona making good progress for those kids ..
Desmondeyum
315
At least we won and didn't concede 7 goals
Adityaraj18
257
Barca fans-We have so many good players from La Masia and they will help us in future Valverde-What is La Masia?Let's sign Neymar for 500 million euros
Blackwidow111
194
Griezmann off 46' and Barca scored 2 goals after that!
ⓜⓞⓞⓢⓐbaloch
184
First time ever in the history, Iniesta is playing against Barça😞😍 LEGEND ❤❤❤❤❤
RosanwoKehindeOkeo
164
This is how normal No 7 should play...
MoazzamBaloch
126
Sed that guy on loan to sone newly promoted Team in aliga, he deserves more than being with Barcelona B team in third tier
Jsmooth
101
Real Madrid would say Barca played a small team 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
oz_nuestro
95
Barcelona have a problem which is Valverde and a perfect solution that is called MESSI.
Rayhan_Akash
59
next it should be 100 mil + coutinho + dembele = iniesta
iamani
11
1. Andrés Iniesta even at the age of 35 is better than anyone in Barcelona mid field
griezmann was really good for the first half, lots of link up play... maybe you should watch the game more carefully before criticising..