The Colombian Defense of Mallorca, Johan Mojica (DER), disputes a ball with Lamine Yamal, Barcelona striker.
Photo: Efe – Miquel A. Borràs
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Barcelona began on Saturday its goal of revalidating the title in La LaLiga EA Sports with a comfortable victory against a Mallorca (0-3) that ended with two players expelled after the many of Raphinha and Ferran Torres-this controversial controversy-and Lamine Yamal.
The Catalans, led by the German Hansi Flick, did not raise their foot from the accelerator throughout the match and extended the good feelings of the preseason with a very dynamic football and accompanied by great chances of goal.
Just seven minutes took Raphinha to open the score. The Brazilian joined Lamine Yamal to sign the first goal culé of the 2025/2026 season.
Mallorca improved with the passage of the minutes and had options to tie the contest taking advantage of the spaces left by Barcelona's defense, but Vedat Muriqi wasted both times when he did not shoot after a center of the Colombian Johan Mojica.
At 20 minutes of play came the controversy. In an offensive action of Barça, a shot by Lamine hit Antonio Raíllo's head, which was lying in the area, but the referee did not stop the game, the action continued through the area where the defender was and Ferran scored the second from outside the area.
The fans and local players were incredulous because they considered that the referee should stop the commitment for Ríllo to be treated, which flowed into a yellow card to Manu Morlanes, which would cost him very expensive minutes later when he was expelled for double warning.
Already totally out of the game, the Mallorcan team tried to reconnect to the game with ten players, but another entrance of Muriqi into a divided ball put its tacos at the height of Joan García's head and made those of Jagoba razate end the clash with nine after the review of the VAR.
The second half was much quieter than the first, despite the fact that the culé domain was absolute and could mark the third repeatedly, but Leo Román looked to prevent the bleeding from going to more. After many attempts, Lamine signed the final 3-0.
In this way, Barça starts the league competition without shocks and with the feeling of continuing in the rhythm of the last campaign, while Mallorca must face the clash against Celta without two fundamental pieces such as Morlanes and Muriqi.
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