Despite managing a 1-0 victory away at Real Mallorca, Barcelona’s manager was the happiest man of the day after breaking Zinadine Zidane’s La Liga unbeaten record with 18 away games played without giving up a defeat. Barcelona will go to bed this Saturday night as the leaders of LaLiga Santander.
Robert Lewandowski proved to be the legend once more by scoring in the first half of the game for the sixth straight League game.
Lewandowski scored a magnificent goal to start the game, venturing inside and twisting a strong effort into the farthest corner of the goal post, to ensure that Xavi was bent on breaking Zidane’s record. The game started with Barcelona fighting to crush Real Mallorca’s defense.
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Mallorca, who relentlessly pushed and created numerous second-half opportunities for Vedat Muriqi, forced Barcelona to hang on in the final period. Ter Stegen had to get a foot to a Lee Kang-in shot in the 90th minute to preserve the clean sheet. Do you believe that Xavi will continue to keep his unbeaten record in the season given his new record with Barcelona and his brief tenure as the team’s manager?
Recall that Xavi is pleased with how Barcelona has started the 2022–23 season after the Catalan team defeated Elche 3-0 on Saturday to record its fifth straight victory at home.
Barcelona initially struggled to break them down even after Elche was down to 10 men early on, and Xavi talked about this thereafter.
The coach said, “This was a vital win against a highly defensive formation, a 5-4-1.