Ousmane Dembele fired a spectacular winner to seal a 2-1 Supercopa de Espana triumph for Barcelona over Sevilla as Marc-Andre ter Stegen saved a last-gasp penalty in Tangier.
Match Events
9' GOAL! Barcelona 0-1 Sevilla (Sarabia)
Goal! Sevilla 1-0 Barcelona . Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luis Muriel.
42' GOAL! Barcelona 1-1 Sevilla (Piqué)
Goal! Sevilla 1-1 Barcelona. Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.
78' GOAL! Barcelona 2-1 Sevilla (Dembélé)
Goal! Sevilla 1-2 Barcelona. Ousmane Dembélé (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Lionel Messi following a set piece situation.
90' Marc-Andre ter Stegen saves Ben Yedder penalty
Match Report
Sevilla president Jose Castro voiced objections over the Spanish season's curtain-raiser being taken away from its traditional two-legged format to be played in Morocco but Pablo Machin's side started the brighter.
Pablo Sarabia followed his three goals in the Europa League preliminary stages with a ninth-minute opener that was cancelled out by Gerard Pique three minutes from half-time.
Dembele put the injury misery that ruined his debut season in Catalonia behind him by blasting in a rasping right-footed strike via the crossbar, although there was a final twist
Ter Stegen brought down ex-Barca full-back Aleix Vidal, only to atone for his clumsiness by holding a tame spot-kick from Sevilla substitute Wissam Ben Yedder.
Line-ups
Barcelona XI: L. Messi, L. Suárez, Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, M. ter Stegen, Rafinha, Lenglet, Semedo, Arthur, O. Dembélé
Subs: I. Rakitić, Vidal, Philippe Coutinho, Jasper Cillessen, S. Umtiti, Munir, Juan Miranda
Sevilla XI: J.Navas, S. Kjær, G. Mercado, É. Banega, T. Vaclík, F.Vázquez, Escudero, L. Muriel, Sarabia, S.Gómez, Mesa
Subs: Carriço, Nolito, A.Vidal, Ben Yedder, Amadou, André Silva, Juan Soriano
Mess1isagoat
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dembele searching for haters
manieminem10
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Eagle's eyes Best without any doubt [Bear]
Aiyesoro
189
Suarez is 31 he doesn't have that time on his hands, he's been playing bad since last season. Our blind coach is just loyal to him for no reason, let try munir
DemonKing_LUCIFER
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Rusty start but we caught up.... Suarez needs to be more sharp.... Dembele showing his worth and is ready to fight for his position with Malcom... Semedo has to step up his game as he makes poor judgement... Overall decent performance..... Credit to Sevilla (who was underestimated), they fought till the end.... Can't wait for La Liga to start....[Bear][Bear][Bear]
FreeAgent10
100
It is was rusty start that got somewhat better. It is very clear that our players are alot rusty from the lack of game time especially Suarez who's touch today was way off. Hopefully he doesn't have slow start to the season like last time. Dembele with a stunning goal to seal the match and so happy for him and hope he can continue. Messi lifting his his trophy as Captain is good way to start the season. Visça el Barça
Seun4usever
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I think the Spanish federation make a mistake of taking this game out of Spain, didn't they have a national stadium like Wembley that they can play a match like this? The game was sooooooooo boring as both side did not have their supporters to cheers them on, I think they will rethink it and it will not be like this next year, congrats to Barcelona team........
PrinceSl
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If we will win trophies this season our coach need to forget sentiment and play players that deserve to play. Suarez is no more sharp as he used to, let's stop playing him and Messi upfront in important matches. He should play Messi as false 9 flanked by Malcom and Dembele. We can't afford to let Suarez be playing rubbish every time.
KwabenaSP
85
where is Malcom?
Ceyks
84
Congratulations Barcelona for starting this football season with a bliss and congrats to the GOAT Lio Messi for his first match as the first captain of Barcelona we won a trophy. I pray his era brings as many trophies as possible. FORCA BARCA
LeoFeliciano18
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THREE THINGS LEARNT. 1. watch out for demebele (a mouth watering goal hits on his fire form for the new season) 2. Messi still a God at 31yrs. 3. New players, same stlylish and brilliant Barca. FORCA BARCA.
Đaiveed ♥
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Fantastic performance from. Barcelona they played an outstanding game, Seville were tougher than I expected they played a very good game too.. incredible goal from dembele he's very talented lad am just glad he stayed he's the kind of player who's qualities are extremely wonderful........... Once again a job well done a!nd nice to see Messi 😂 lifting he's first trophy as captain
Ernest1z
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this Dembele is he left footed or right he always confuse me. wow what a great goal. visca Barca.
bin_yamin143
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messi lifted his first cup as a captain