It was January the 3rd when football fans all over the world looked at the scoreboard in Valencia in dismay – it was 84th minute and once a great club, now condemned to fight for relegation season after season, was winning 1-0 against Real Madrid. In the next minute, Modrić equalized before Bellingham scored a winner in the 96th minute. In reality, Real was much better and Valencia had a bit of luck to score early and then defend until 85th minute. But for bad teams there is no luck and tonight Valencia felt the fury of a world class team: Barcelona – Valencia 7-1.Barcelona’s third goal is amazing by Raphinha pic.twitter.com/wDFYnolIF4— Leo Messi (@Messi_10_30) January 26, 2025 🎥 FC Barcelona Goal⚽️ Fermin Lopez pic.twitter.com/i4YLHDLR9n— Barça Spaces (@BarcaSpaces) January 26, 2025 🎥 FC Barcelona Goal⚽️ Fermin Lopez pic.twitter.com/E59cwCSZSp— Barça Spaces (@BarcaSpaces) January 26, 2025 Hansi Flick decided to mix his squad and made four changes, with García, De Jong, Fermin and Torres replacing Ronald Araújo, Gavi, Pedri and Lewandowski. The German coach even decided to put Szczesny on goal, dispite his comic display againt Benfica. But all that was still not enough for Valencia to even lose honorably. De Jong scored after just three minutes, Torres added another one and Ferran scored a brace. Flick decided to rest Raphinha (also the scorer) after one hour, but to the horror of away fans, he replaced him with Lewandowski, who scored Barca‘s sixht goal just six minutes after. Valencia is Robert‘s favorite ‘prey‘ as he scored six goals in four games against Valencia in LaLiga, his highest tally against a single opponent in the competition, and just added another one today. It was 5-0 after the first half, which means that the Catalans scored on every nine minutes on average.Barcelona Dominating First Half Goals #BarçaValencia pic.twitter.com/b6ofhsE6uQ— SHAYEE 𒀭 (@tier_first) January 26, 2025 It was visible that the home team didn‘t want to embarrass the opponent in the second half, but the once proud team is so bad now, due to his owner‘s innaproriate handling of the club that they conceded two more and thus equalized their bad record of 7 goals in the net for the first time since 1955! It Barcelona players really pushed harder, they could have scored at least three to four more goals. Hansi Flick‘s men finished this game like a harder training and will not prepare to host the unpleasant Atalanta in the last round of Champions League group stage on Wednesday.LA LIGA – MATCHDAY 21Friday Las Palmas – Osasuna 1-1 (0-0)/Januzaj 90+8 – Oroz 53/Saturday Mallorca – Betis 0-1 (0-0)/Bakambu 90+6/Atl. Madrid – Villarreal 1-1 (0-1)/Lino 58 – Moreno 29 pen/Sevilla – Espanyol 1-1 (0-1)/Bade 61 – Kumbula 15/Valladolid – Real Madrid 0-3 (0-1)/Mbappe 30,57, 90+1/Sunday Rayo Vallecano – Girona 2-1 (0-0)/Nteka 80,83 – Gil 58/Sociedad – Getafe 0-3 (0-0)/Uche 72, Perez 74, 85/Ath.Bilbao – Leganes 0-0Barcelona – Valencia 7-1 (5-0)/De Jong 3, Torres 8, Raphinha 14, Lopez 24, 45, Lewandowski 68, Tarrega 75(og) – Duro 58/Monday23.00: (2.70) Alaves (3.05) Celta (2.80)***odds are subject to change***
