Barça’s five out of five

FC Barcelona	2-0	Granada
●Xavi 87’ ●Borja Gomez(OG) 92’

(September 22, 2012)

Former coach Pep Guardiola started with a defeat from Numancia. In the next match FC Barcelona drew with Racing Santander. But Tito Vilanova’s start was simply amazing. In Spanish La Liga FC Barcelona won five out of five matches.

Last win came against Granada. Till 86^th minute the score-line was 0-0. FC Barcelona attacked one after another but Granada’s defense defended every attack very strongly. Goalkeeper Toño was playing as he is the Great Wall of China. FC Barcelona shoot twenty times on goal and eleven of those were on target. Granada’s goalkeeper saved almost ten times.

At this stage Xavi showed the way. He came on in place of Thiago who was playing badly with lot of wrong passes and his shots were all far away from the target. Tello was also on for Adriano and then FC Barelona became more attacking. Whatever, they couldn't score.

The first goal of the match came in 87^th minute. Xavi’s powerful shot from the box found the net at last reflected from crossbar. In the extra time Barca got another though it was an own goal by Gomez.

In the season 2009-10 FC Barcelona started with six consecutive wins in La Liga. Time will say that Tito Vilanova can repeat Guardiola era or not.

 Team Line-ups:

FC Barcelona	Granada
1.Víctor Valdés	1.Toño
2.Dani Alves	2.Allan-Roméo Nyom
14.Javier Mascherano	6.Guillherme Siqueira
25.Alex Song	8.Inigo Lopez
21.Adriano Correia(37.Christian Tello 73')	20.Borja Gomez
16.Sergio Busquests	14.Moreno Mikel Rico
11.Thiago Alcântara(6.Xavi Hernández 54')	19.Fabián Orellana
4.Cesc Fàbregas	22.Gabriel Torje(21.Juan Manuel Ortiz 66')
17.David Villa(17.Pedro Rodríguez 53')	24.Santos Iriney
10 Lionel Messi	3.Yacine Brahimi(10.Jaime Romero Gómez 75')
7.Alexis Sánchez	7.Antonio Floro Flores(9.Youssef El Arabi 58')

Match Statistics:

FC Barcelona		Granada
20(11)	Shots (On target)	7(3)
74%	Ball Possession	26%
10	Fouls	15
14	Corner Kicks	5
3	Offsides	0
3	Clean Sheets	10
0	Yellow Cards	3
0	Red Cards	0