Antoine Griezmann takes Barcelona joint top of La Liga after Getafe struggle

Antoine Griezmann17 Barcelona's Hero 

"Some of the time it is beneficial for you to endure," Antoine Griezmann said when this game reached a conclusion, supporters at the Camp Nou leaving relieved. Barcelona had endured, that is without a doubt; regardless of whether that is beneficial for them is another issue.

Quique Setién's side had beaten Getafe, opening an important lead in the group just beneath them and for the minute going joint top with Real Madrid, yet the look on Lionel Messi's face didn't discuss absolute fulfillment. This had been hard, a game that had appeared to be set to get away from Barcelona at an early stage and may have done toward the end.

Sergio Roberto goal scorer 

Eventually, however, Barcelona hung on. Objectives from Griezmann and Sergi Roberto were sufficient, regardless of a splendid strike from a man who may before long go along with them, Angel Rodríguez pulling one back to set up a strained last 30 minutes.

It isn't by chance that Getafe are third, the season's extraordinary disclosure. Or then again that, from the Barcelona seat, the last guidance in the last moment was to hit the ball long to Arturo Vidal, looking for security, getting them over the line.

Getafe may have increasingly here, their supervisor heading down the passage baffled and crushed just before that one final play. José Bordalás may likewise have pondered about a potential second-half punishment and a first-half objective that was precluded.

Squeezing Barcelona into their own territory, denying them a simple way out, Getafe had started with the aim that has portrayed them. Jorge Molina was not the first to escape into space when he drew the corner from which Getafe thought they had the opener. Molina found a workable pace first, interfacing with a header that Marc-André ter Stegen spared and there, running in to complete, was Allan Nyom. Behind him, however, Samuel Umtiti was lying on the turf, bewildered. At the point when the arbitrator went to the screen, he saw why: Nyom had transformed his shoulder into Umtiti's face, wrecking him; the objective was precluded.

An objective, however, couldn't be precluded. It nearly came when Jaime Mata dodged Ter Stegen inside the zone and Marc Cucurella struck partially wide. Before long a short time later, Gerard Piqué just barely snared away from Molina, stressed whistles following from the stands. The ball had been Barcelona's, maybe, yet the game was most certainly not. And afterward, abruptly, it was.

A magnificent, deft touch from Messi opened the zone for Griezmann to keenly guide past Soria following 33 minutes. It was the 6th progressive Barcelona objective helped by Messi yet there would not be a seventh. Junior conveyed for Sergi Roberto to score the second, the distrusting look all over recounting to a story.

Not so he surrendered. Getafe sent on Kenedy and Ángel – the striker Barcelona may yet sign as a crisis trade for Ousmane Dembélé – and on the off chance that they were all the while questioning his worth, he offered them an eminent side-footed volley. It was his tenth objective of the period, nine off the seat, and one he didn't generally celebrate. A calling card, maybe; a source of inspiration, absolutely.

Restored, Getafe came at Barcelona once more. There was conviction now – and afterward skepticism when Ter Stegen some way or another slapped the ball away from Mata on the line. Nerves restored, a couple of more whistles as well. Griezmann could have facilitated them when he impacted uncontrollably over first and well wide straightaway.

Between those two possibilities Piqué pulled on Ángel's shirt as the striker squeezed, took ownership and headed into the zone alone. There was a game on here, that was without a doubt. There simply was very little time to play it.

With brief left Messi bowed a shot wide. It was his 33rd in succession without an objective and nobody else would get one either. Looking over the scene, mindful of how they had endured, Barcelona made due with that.

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