Lamine Yamal was injured within the act of scoring the one purpose of the sport as Barcelona beat Celta Vigo 1-0.
Yamal transformed from the penalty spot within the fortieth minute after taking place underneath the problem of Yoel Lago, however instantly fell to the ground thereafter and went straight down the tunnel as he was withdrawn.
An additional delay to the competition then got here as the sport was stopped for over 10 minutes as a result of a medical concern within the stands.
With that stoppage added to eight minutes of damage time, it was no shock Barca had been by no means actually capable of finding their stride within the second half towards a Celta aspect chasing Champions League soccer.
Ferran Torres appeared to have doubled Barca’s lead early within the second half, solely to see his effort dominated out for offside following a VAR assessment.
An unconvincing Barca aspect had been finally grateful to a pair of massive saves from Joan Garcia as they restored their nine-point lead over Actual Madrid on the prime of LaLiga, although their will probably be apparent concern over Yamal forward of Saturday’s journey to Getafe.
Yamal damage mars Barcelona win
A frantic first minute noticed Lamine Yamal curl narrowly broad of the close to submit earlier than Celta broke rapidly and Pablo Duran drew a superb save from Garcia.
Ferran Jutgla wasted the perfect probability of the half for Celta when he blazed over on the close to submit, although the guests had been grateful to see one other Yamal effort from the sting of the world fly simply broad.
Yamal made no mistake to find the bottom-right nook after successful an finally decisive penalty, however the teenager left the pitch in apparent discomfort as he was changed by Roony Bardghji.
The prolonged delay that adopted the opening purpose took the sting out of the rest of the primary half, and there was little high quality within the early levels of the second till Torres lashed Pedri’s cross in off the underside of the crossbar.
His celebrations would show moot, nonetheless, as Barca had been denied respiration room in a sport that grew more and more tense, and solely the brilliance of Garcia prevented Duran from levelling issues because the Celta ahead let one other large probability go begging.
That profligacy finally value Celta, who slip right down to seventh, with their goals of becoming a member of Barca in subsequent season’s Champions League fading considerably.
