Julien Laurens says that Ronald Koeman and Barcelona will be happy to take three points after beating Huesca and continue (0:36)
Barcelona beat La Liga’s Basement Club Huesca 1-0 on Sunday thanks to a goal from Frenkie de Jong that Lionel Messi won at the 500 The Argentine’s league game scored for the club
Dutch midfielder De Jong hit a Messi cross at the far post and scored in the 27th Minute on the volley to give the visitors the lead they deserved after a rampant start
But Ronald Koeman’s team didn’t use their many other chances and in the end had to sweat about all three points
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“In general we played well in the last 20 minutes,” said Koeman after the game. “We created a lot of danger. It’s not easy against a team that has a lot of defensive players
“But we switched wings well, we scored a good goal, we created more chances to have a bigger advantage””
Huesca could have equalized in the second half when the ball ran over Barca’s area and striker Rafa Mir pointed a back wheel at the goal, but the shot had no strength and goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen saved it, despite the fact that he did Ball saw late
The win put Barca in fifth place overall with 28 points over Sevilla, 10 points behind leaders Atletico Madrid, who had previously defeated Alaves 2-1 and has a game against the Catalans, and Huesca remains with 12 Dots below
“It is obvious that we have to kill our opponents in games like this We suffered too much in the end, “said Barca keeper Ter Stegen
“But there are three very important points, we suffered for it, and games like this are very important if you want to win the title
“They hacked us a bit in the first and second halves and we couldn’t take our chances, but we stayed focused throughout”
Barca had a frustrating 1-1 draw in their last home game against Eibar and also lost Philippe Coutinho to a serious knee injury, but they could at least welcome Messi back who missed that game with an ankle problem
Looking a little out of place in his milestone league game, the Argentine missed the target with a volley with his left foot in the first half when the sensible option would have been to take it with the right
He made up for the only goal of the game with a clever piece of play, but picked De Jong with a sensational, curling cross
Messi almost hit himself with a free kick in the first half, but Huesca keeper Alvaro Fernandez threw a shot over the bar
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Julien Laurens says Ronald Koeman and Barcelona are happy to take three points and will continue after beating Huesca
Barcelona extended their unbeaten run to six games Lionel Messi and Frenkie de Jong scored the only goal in the 1-0 win over Huesca
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