Internet Desk: Barcelona had no difficulty in thrashing the Spanish second division Hercules 7-0 to advance to the last 16 of the King’s Cup. At home, the team secured the elastic score without Messi, Suarez and Neymar – the trio Won off on Wednesday. In the absence of the stars, Turkish star Adra Turan showed his class and scored three goals.
It took Barca to clear the marker. In the first leg of the match, the match had already equalized in a 1-0 lead. In the 37th minute of the first half, with Digne’s goal after Rafinha’s assist, the team opened the count and has since found an easy path. Rakitic, with a penalty, Rafinha, Arda Turan (three times) and Paco Alcácer signed the other goals.
Rakitic’s goal is especially interesting. Absolute holder of the club last season, the Croatian lost position in the classic against Real Madrid. After that, the midfielder was suspended in the Champions League game and, by technical option, stayed 90 minutes on the bench in the last two games of the Spanish. In mixed teams, he started playing again. And it went well.
Rakitic managed to shrug them off and fired a low shot past the keeper to give his team the lead. At that point, Barça were already leading the scoring because of a strange goal: Rafinha tried to finish, pierced the kick and the clutter turned into assistance for Digne.
In the second half, just after 5 minutes, Rafinha used a line made by Arda Turan and hit hard from the entrance of the area to make beautiful try. At 10, Arda Turan, Turkish alternating starts as a starter and others as reserve, widened the advantage with a straight header.
Paco Alcácer made the fifth in an irregular position – it was the first time the Spaniard hired for $ 110 million for Barca rocked the networks with the new shirt in official matches. Turan scored twice more and gave final numbers to the duel.
Barcelona will only return to the field in January 2017. On 08, they will face away from home Villarreal, for the Spanish Championship.