Barcelona's Gerard Pique Allegedly Subjected To Homophobic Abuse By Espanyol Fans In Catalan Derby
La Liga are investigating reports Gerard Pique was targeted with homophobic chants during the Catalan derby between Barcelona and Espanyol.
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La Liga are investigating reports Gerard Pique was targeted with homophobic chants during the Catalan derby between Barcelona and Espanyol.
Fue en un derbi en el RCDE Stadium, partido inolvidable por la tensión y el ambiente pese a que Luuk de Jong estropease la fiesta con su gol en el minuto 97. Esa estirada insuficiente del 'largo' Diego López, que cumplió 200 encuentros en la historia del club desde que llegara al final de mecado de 2016 procedente del Milán. Un momento idóneo para sentarse junto a la fotografía de Ricardo Zamora, el primer icono del fútbol español, y explicar sus sensaciones después de tal efeméride.
BARCELONA: Barcelona were held 1-1 at home by Napoli in the first leg of their Europa League knockout stage playoff tie on Thursday (Feb 17), while Scottish side Rangers shocked Borussia Dortmund with a 4-2 win in Germany.
FRIDAY'S BIG STORIES Slumming It Ad/> In the 59th minute of last night's game against Napoli, Ferran Torres stepped up to take a penalty. It was a VAR penalty, you know the sort of thing: the handballs that flash past almost unnoticed at full speed but then, stretched and made strange by slow-motion, become serious and penalty-worthy incidents. Europa LeagueCeltic left stunned, Leicester take pressure off and Martial strikes first Sevilla goal11 HOURS AGO Not that Torres cared about the penalty's provenance.
Barcelona, who dropped out of the Champions League, now face a difficult task of qualifying for the round of 16 in the Europa League.
La imagen de Ferran Torres tras el pitido final del Barcelona 1-Nápoles 1 no ha pasado desapercibida. Al delantero azulgrana se le pudo ver muy afectado por ante el conjunto italiano. A pesar de lograr el gol del empate en el minuto 59 al transformar el penalti cometido por Juan Jesús, el valenciano era consciente de que su equipo debió finalizar el encuentro con más goles en el casillero, algunos de los cuales estuvieron en sus botas.
Ferran Torres has scored a second-half penalty to salvage a 1-1 draw for wasteful Barcelona against Napoli in the first leg of their Europa League knockout round play-off.
Barcelona playing in the Europa League feels against the natural order of things, but by the end of a 1-1 draw with Napoli they looked every inch a second-tier side.