Villarreal stuns Henry-less FC Barcelona and postpones the Blaugrana celebration for the Championship title. FC Barcelona must wait until the next round to win the Spanish League.
After Real Madrid’s loss at Valencia (3-0), FC Barcelona could win the championship by winning against Villarreal FC at Camp Nou. But after leading up to 3-1 and mostly due to Eric Abidal’s new red card (He will miss the King’s cup final against Athletic Bilbao), FC Barcelona came back to the locker room with a draw 3-3. Messi went scoreless in the game.
Match details :
FC Barcelona: Valdés; Alves, Puyol, Piqué, Abidal; Touré, Xavi (Sergio Busquets, m.84), Keita, Messi (Gudjohnsen, m.89), Eto’o (Silvinho, m.79), Iniesta
Villarreal: Diego López; Javi Venta, Godín, Gonzalo, Capdevila; Eguren, Pires (Bruno, m.64), Cani, Ibagaza (Matías Fernández, m.71), Rossi (Nihat, m.64), Llorente
Goals:
First half
12′ 1-0: Keita
22′ 1-1: Llorente
36′ 2-1: Eto’o
45+1′ 3-1 : Alves
Second half
78′ 3-2: Matias Fernandez
90+2′ 3-3 :Llorente