Barcelona players celebrate La Liga against Leganes at the Butarque stadium in Leganes. (AP) Barcelona on Saturday at the Butarque stadium secured a decisive victory of 1-0 against Leganes through Jorge Saenz’s own goal, expanding their lead to seven points at the top of La Liga. The victory keeps its impressive 24-match undefeated run in 2025 and keeps them on the way to the potential four times this season.
The second placement of Real Madrid is facing Alaves on Sunday, now under pressure to close the league leaders’ gap.
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The Barcelona performance lacked the usual attacking taste, but after Borussia Dortmund managed to win the victory after the victory of 4-0 masters.
“The fight and mentality that the team showed today was great,” said Barcelona Hansi Flick manager. “(Madrid) have a match tomorrow, but we only look at each other, three points are good and we had a great week.”
“In the end, three points are important in these games,” said Barcelona’s defender Eric Garcia Dazn. “I think this is the type of game where the league is won … we are the top of the table where we want to be, and today we could extend this distance a little.”
The match was from December by reversing wealth when Leganes won 1-0 in the home country in Barcelona.
Leganes created the best chance of a faint first half when Dani Raba was set up by Adria Altimir, whose shot was saved by goalkeeper Barcelona Wojciech Szczesna.
Barcelona suffered failure when the defender Alejandro Balde was forced to have a muscular injury before the half -life.
“Balde is not that good … (but) I will not say anything and we will wait until tomorrow,” Flick commented.
The breakthrough came after half -time when the Raphinhov low cross was diverted to his own network Saenzem, while the presence of Robert Lewandowski forced a mistake.
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Barcelona then created several chances, with Fermin Lopez missing a clear opportunity and Lewandowski is heading from Raphinh’s cross.
Leganes thought they were equal to the rabbis, but it was controlled offside. Diego Garcia also missed a good chance late in the game.
The match ended with the key solution of iniga Martinez on former player Barcelona Munir El Haddadi and retained the victory of visitors.
“The last savings (Martinez) were incredible,” Flick said. “Everyone celebrated it as if it were a goal.”
Defeat leaves Leganes in 19th place, two points from security.
“It’s so hard … We leave with empty hands against the barce, even though they are true that they attacked us, they were not as effective as usual and left with a bitter feeling because we did great performance,” said Renato Tapia.
“We can do it (stay up) and I think we showed it today.”
Jules Kounde had the only other remarkable attempt in Barcelona in the first half, with his diverted shot rescued goalkeeper Leganes Marko Dmitrovic.
Teenage star Lamine Yamal forced the late savings from Dmitrovich on his nearby column as Barcelona tried to ensure their close advantage.
Flick made tactical changes in the half -time and brought Frenkie de Jong for Ronald Arauujo and moved Eric Garcia to defend, which eventually helped win.
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