An Ousmane Dembele goal helped a Barcelona turnaround away to Rayo in a game that was unexpectedly tough against a team expected to fight for survival this season.
The Frenchman came on for Rafinha in the second half and his quick feet and skill on the ball helped save Barcelona from a similar fate to that which took place in Leganes.
Dembele spent much of the time causing people to lose their patience with poor crosses, bad decisions and a lack of willing, but in the end he took his chance with five minutes to go with a left-foot shot. Then he was involved in the winner scored by Luis Suarez.
Having only got the equaliser it was strange though to see Dembele celebrating and no other teammate went near him.
"It is normal that we were rushing to get the third," said Valverde afterwards.
Celebrating on his own was a tribute also to his style of play and coincidentally it was the same corner where six years ago Carles Puyol told off Thiago and Dani Alves for dancing having got the fifth goal in a 7-0 victory, which he felt was unnecessary.
12UnitedGuy
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His teammates shouldn't have let him celebrated on his own since he gave them hope in the game that's not fair to leave him alone to celebrate by himself
Leubdotuyz
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Dembelle do good you all criticise him he do bad still criticise him what else can he do to make you all love him and believe that he is good enough for BARCELONA come on guys I have enough of this shit time enough to support him when squares was down you all try to kill him and put him right down now he is up and scoring again he is one of the best in BARCELONA team every player have a bad day a lot of pressure is on dembelle because of the amount of money they paid for him and they expect him to fill the boots that was left by this so call Brazilian the guy is just 21 years old he is still developing come on guys give him a break let him strive he is our own one of us very talented youth the future for BARCELONA don't try and push him out the club next thing we regret seeing him doing darm good in another club like paco is doing now and we all want him back now let us all don't live to regret rate him stop drate him .