A double for Robert Lewandowski and a late Dani Olmo penalty ensured that LaLiga champions Barcelona ended the season on a excessive with a 3-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.
Barcelona had already wrapped up the league title, whereas Athletic Bilbao’s Champions League qualification had long-since been confirmed and, as such, there was little driving on this fixture on the San Mames.
However Barcelona appeared each bit title winners as they reached 88 factors for the marketing campaign, 4 forward of second-placed Actual Madrid and 12 above Atletico Madrid in third.
With the low stakes of the sport, head coach Hansi Flick selected to relaxation many first-teamers, together with each senior goalkeepers Wojciech Szczesny and Marc-Andre ter Stegen, with Inaki Pena given his first begin in additional than 4 months.
Lewandowski received issues going within the 14th minute after being performed in by Fermin Lopez having overwhelmed the offside entice, lobbing goalkeeper Unai Simon.
The Polish striker doubled his tally simply 4 minutes later when heading residence from a nook after Unai Gomez had made an error from his clearance.
Regardless of his brace, Lewandowski fell in need of Kylian Mbappe’s 31 league objectives for the season and needed to accept second place within the Golden Boot race on 27. He missed a superb likelihood for his hat-trick shortly after the restart, whereas he had been substituted three minutes previous to a late penalty.
Olmo was fouled contained in the penalty space within the 92nd minute and received again as much as take spot kick, placing his facet three objectives to the nice and wrapping up victory.
5 – With 101 objectives, Robert Lewandowski has turn out to be the fifth quickest Barcelona participant to achieve 100 objectives in all competitions (147), after Mariano Martín (99), László Kubala (103), Luis Suárez (120) and Evaristo (143). Milestone. pic.twitter.com/fYtatShnoC
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Information debrief: Comfy victory for spectacular Barcelona
Regardless of scoring three objectives away from residence, Barcelona nonetheless underperformed their xG of three.49.
Ending the season with 27 league objectives and 42 in all competitions, Lewandowski signed off from his finest Barcelona marketing campaign since signing three seasons in the past. He’s additionally the fifth-fastest Barcelona participant to achieve 100 objectives for the membership after notching his one hundredth and a hundred and first.
Barcelona themselves, in the meantime, completed the league season as high scorers with 102 objectives – not less than 24 greater than another crew.
