Barcelona held by winless Granada at Camp Nou in Liga

On Monday, Barcelona faltered at Camp Nou again after an uncomforting beat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, being organized by winless Granada 1-1 in the Spanish league. Barcelona required a 90th-minute equalizer by defender Ronald Araujo, to salvage a 1-1 home draw against Granada in the Spanish league. The setback adopted the 3-0 rout by Bayern in the first beating of the staff as dropping Lionel Messi to Paris Sant-Germain.  The result impelled a few jeers by fans and increased pressure on Ronald Koeman, coach and Joan Laporta, membership president. This season, Granada came winless to Barcelona in four matches and coming off two consecutive losses together with at house in the Andalucia derby final week towards Real Betis. It conquered Barcelona at Camp Nou the last time they men in the month of April. 

“It’s a shame,” Araújo mentioned. “If we had been able to score earlier we could have gotten the victory. After the early goal they sat back on defense and that made it difficult for us.”

The draw left Barcelona in 7th place, five factors from chief Real Madrid with a recreation in hand.

Coached by Robert Moreno, former Spain supervisor, Granada opened the scoring two minutes into the match with a header by Domingos Duarte off a set-piece. Barcelona wasted two fine chances to make equal earlier than halftime. Sergi Roberto defeat the crossbar from inside the world and header of Araujo was luminously saved by Luis Maximiano Granada goalkeeper. 

Luuk de Jong and Memphis also did not take the advantage of on scoring chances in the second half, but Araujo finally broke by means of with a close-range header in 90th. 

“We know that Barça isn’t going through a good moment and it was important to try to take advantage of that early on,”

Duarte mentioned. “Earning a point at Camp Nou is always good but we came close to getting the three points. In the end they had many chances too. It was a fair result.”

Because of accidents, Koeman could not depend on several gamers together with Pedri Gonzalez and Jordi Alba. 
In second half, he added several children together with 17-year-old Gavi and Riqui Puig who arranged equalizer of Araujo. Philippe Coutinho was one of several gamers changed. Veteran defender Gerard Pique played as a striker after coming into the sport in the last minutes.