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Updated: Apr 5, 2025, 06:13 pm
Barcelona spurned the accidental to widen their pb astatine the apical of the LaLiga standings erstwhile they were held astatine location 1-1 by Real Betis connected Saturday, with visiting defender Natan cancelling retired Gavi's aboriginal opener.
The gully moves Hansi Flick's Barça connected to 67 points, 4 up of rivals Real Madrid who slumped to a 2-1 decision astatine location by Valencia earlier connected Saturday, portion Betis climbed to 5th connected 48 points.
The hosts had been fixed further information by Real's shocking nonaccomplishment and had a large commencement erstwhile Gavi opened the scoring from adjacent range, brilliantly assisted by Ferran Torres 7 minutes aft kickoff.
However, Natan headed the equaliser from a country successful the 17th infinitesimal and though they dominated, Barca could not find a mode past 38-year-old goalkeeper Adrián who made a drawstring of saves aboriginal connected to frustrate the hosts.
"One crippled less, 1 constituent more," Barcelona manager Hansi Flick said successful a quality conference. "That's a bully thing. Of people the archetypal fractional we made excessively galore mistakes, but besides we created chances. In the 2nd half, it was overmuch better. In the 2nd fractional we effort to get a amended result.
"With our chances we create, we were not similar normal, not truthful merciless. It happens. I deliberation everyone present has some feet connected the world and it helps us. I americium blessed that we tried successful the 2nd fractional everything. I spot it precise positive."
Adrian's superb show started adjacent earlier Barca opened the scoring, erstwhile helium palmed distant Pedri's onslaught from wrong the box, but determination was thing helium could bash to support Gavi from scoring moments later.
Barça kept up the unit aft taking the pb but Betis equalised from a Giovanni lo Celso country which Natan jumped higher than defender Ronald Araújo to conscionable and caput into the backmost of the net.
Adrian came to the rescue again arsenic helium made a stunning one-handed prevention from a Lamine Yamal curling onslaught from wrong the container successful the 38th minute.
Coach Hansi Flick subbed connected Raphinha successful the 2nd fractional and Barça came backmost adjacent stronger, dominating much than 75% of possession but wasting excessively galore chances.
The Brazilian guardant was a changeless menace and missed with a curling onslaught from the borderline of the box, with Adrian making 2 large efforts to contradict a Jules Koundé onslaught successful the 55th infinitesimal and a Fermín López changeable successful the 85th.
"If we won we would beryllium higher up the table, but successful the extremity it's football," Gavi told Movistar Plus.
"We're bitter astir the result, due to the fact that we couldn't instrumentality vantage of the chances we had passim the match, but we person to judge it and determination on."
