Spent all weekend painting my living room so I missed some friendlies this weekend.
DVR'd the Barca friendly against second division (Segunda) Recreativo. Got to watch this late last night. Enrique had a lot of the B team called up for this. Very sluggish game which Barca won 0-1.
First half only featured 3 first team players; keeper Jordi Masip, Martin Montoya, & Sergi Roberto. It also featured some B players I wanted to see like Halilovic, CB Edgar Ie, CB Frank Bagnack, & Adama Traore.
Halilovic looked really comfortable out on the pitch with his new squad. He almost scored. Traore looked really active on the pitch too. He was always attacking.
The second half featured the likes of Gerry Deulofeu, new keeper Ter Stegen, Marc Bartra, & others. Gerry looked really really good on the pitch & was active on both sides of the pitch. The only thing Recreativo could do to stop Gerry was to foul him.
He unleashed a shot on from the left side which Recreativo’s keeper was able to make a nice save on, but the ball rebounded to Joan Roman who dropped it in the net. Gerry was able to get off another thunderous shot towards the end of the game but hit the crossbar.
It wasn't sexy, but not bad after less than a week of training. Not used to the new crimson red away kits but they looked alright.
Edit - adding some footage available from the friendly. Barca's YT page didn't have full match highlights though... One of the vids has Halilovic footage in case anyone is interested in. Man, the "kids" from the B squad look so young (or is it that I'm getting so old)... Nike loves giving their football teams the Pegasus running shoe to wear don't they?