La Liga: Rayo Vallecano beat Barcelona 1-0 HIGHLIGHTS: Barcelona suffered a shock 1-0 home defeat to Rayo Vallecano which means Real Madrid can step up plans for a title party. Rayo held on for a famous 1-0 win to make it two wins against Barcelona this season. Follow La Liga live updates on InsideSport.IN
La Liga: Rayo EDGE out Barca in a 111-minute thriller courtesy of Alvaro Garcia’s goal, Barcelona loses 3rd home game in a row, Check Barcelona vs Rayo Vallecano HIGHLIGHTS
Rayo Vallecano vs Barcelona 1-0: The result means that Barcelona remain 15 points behind Real Madrid in second, while Rayo climb up to 11th.
Rayo have shocked the hosts and beaten Barcelona 1-0 at Camp Nou!
They’ve won just two games in 2022 and those were both tonight and their previous game against Espanyol! 👀
Barca meanwhile lose three in a row at home for the first time in their history 🤐#LLL
🧡🇪🇦⚽— La Liga Lowdown 🧡🇪🇸⚽️ (@LaLigaLowdown) April 24, 2022
La Liga: Rayo EDGE out Barca in a 111-minute thriller courtesy of Alvaro Garcia’s goal
This was a third consecutive home loss for the Catalans, only the second time that Barcelona have suffered such a fate in their history, with Alvaro Garcia’s early strike the difference between the teams.
It means Real Madrid’s lead at the top is 15 points with five games remaining, putting Los Blancos on the brink of being crowned champions.
That will be confirmed if Carlo Ancelotti’s team avoid defeat to Espanyol next Saturday, while Xavi’s Barcelona have slackened their grip on second place with this setback.
REAL MADRID could be crowned Champions next Saturday
Vallecano, sitting 14th in LaLiga before their arrival at Camp Nou, snatched a seventh-minute lead when Garcia made a smart run into space to meet a chipped pass from Isi Palazon and fired sharply into the bottom-right corner.
Jordi Alba curled a shot that flicked wide off the post as Barcelona chased an equaliser, then Gavi wanted a penalty when he slumped to the turf under a nothing challenge from Santiago Comesana. Referee Isidro Diaz de Mera Escuderos was unimpressed and booked coach Xavi for taking his complaints too far.
A clever floated shot from Gavi hit the crossbar shortly before half-time, and although Ferran Torres lobbed the ball into the net from the rebound, he had been in an offside position.
Depay had a close-range shot blocked by Nikola Maras, and the Dutch striker saw a stinging 20-yard strike punched over the bar by Stole Dimitrievski, but the equaliser would not come.
What does it mean? Barca on the slide
Barcelona had won their last seven home games against Rayo Vallecano in LaLiga, and were seeking eight in a row against them for the first time in the competition, but this was poor from them.
This is a bad time of the season to get stuck in a rut, and Camp Nou defeats to Cadiz in LaLiga and Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League have been followed by another aberration. Barcelona led the shot count 18-3 here, but despite playing 14 minutes of second-half stoppage time, they could not put produce a clinical finish.
What’s next?
Barcelona will have home advantage against next Sunday when Real Mallorca visit Camp Nou. Vallecano are also back on duty next Sunday, hosting Real Sociedad.
La Liga: Rayo EDGE out Barca in a 111-minute thriller courtesy of Alvaro Garcia’s goal, Barcelona loses 3rd home game in a row, Check Barcelona vs Rayo Vallecano HIGHLIGHTS
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