Copa del Rey: Barcelona earn gutsy 1-0 win at Real Madrid in semi-final first leg

A tenacious Barcelona annoyed Real Madrid to safe a 1-0 win over their bitter rivals in an ill-tempered Copa del Rey semi-final first leg on Thursday.

The guests defended fantastically after Real centre again Eder Militao scored an personal objective within the first half, managing to beat the lack of key gamers like Robert Lewandowski, Pedri and Ousmane Dembele who missed the sport on account of accidents.

Barca earned a much-needed win after arriving within the Spanish capital underneath stress having been knocked out of the Europa League and shedding at lowly Almeria to halt a seven-game successful streak in LaLiga.

“We would have liked to have the ball more, to control de game a little more but we fought hard and competed in a high level. They had the ball but didn’t create many chances. We got the advantage for the second leg and that’s really important,” Barcelona captain Sergio Busquets advised TVE.

Real Madrid began higher and dominated the primary quarter-hour, however Barcelona began to show issues round as they took management the midfield and their defensive sport plan labored brilliantly.

Barca centre again Ronald Araujo did an awesome job at proper again to neutralise the specter of the harmful Vinicius Jr. and Karim Benzema was left alone up entrance.

Real grew to become annoyed and tempers flared earlier than the hosts made the essential mistake which gave Barca the winner.

Madrid midfielder Eduardo Camavinga gifted a again move to Ferran Torres who reacted rapidly to slip the ball to Franck Kessie.

His point-blank strike was saved however bounced off Militao and into the web.

The assistant referee signalled offside however the VAR replay confirmed Kessie was fractionally onside and the objective stood.

Barcelona locked Real Madrid into a fair tighter scenario through the second half and though the hosts dominated possession, they hardly ever threatened to equalise.

Real didn’t document a single shot on the right track regardless of having nearly 70% of possession within the second half and Barca ought to have prolonged their lead within the 71st minute when a Kessie shot that beat the goalkeeper was blocked by Ansu Fati.

Substitute Rodrygo had Real’s greatest likelihood with a late long-range strike that flew narrowly huge of the put up.

The groups meet once more in Barcelona on April 5 with the winners to face Athletic Bilbao or Osasuna within the remaining.

This story has been printed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content. Only the headline has been modified.

Source web site: www.hindustantimes.com

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