The Spanish winger played a major role in Barcelona’s triumph over Osasuna over the weekend and believes that the opponents made things hard for the Catalan giants.
Barcelona faced Osasuna away from home during their second La Liga fixture of this season.
The Catalan giants were boasting a good record of two wins before they faced Osasuna in the league.
La Blaugrana won their first important fixture of the league against Real Sociedad as they emerged 5-1 victors from that game.
Lionel Messi was able to score a brace in the first La Liga game.
Later, Barcelona faced their arch rivals, Real Madrid, in the first leg of the Supercopa de Espana.
La Blaugrana emerged victorious as they won the game 3-2 from the Spanish capital-based club.
Even though Barcelona conceded the first goal, they were able to win the fixture, with Alves making a goalkeeping howler to allow Madrid a way back in the game.
This weekend Barcelona faced Osasuna away from home, and even though Tito Vilanova’s men were the favourites to emerge victorious, the home team made it hard for the Copa del Rey champions to score goals.
The first goal was scored by Osasuna against the run of play, and it took http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 was able to score a brace yet again.
Barcelona equalized with Messi scoring with the help of Pedro Rodriguez, and later he made the score-line 2-1, as an assist from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jordi-Alba-c19111 came in handy for the Spanish giants
While speaking about Osasuna, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pedro-c29582 Rodriguez stated:
“It was a tough game, it always takes a lot to win here, in this field. Osasuna are a team that presses you a lot, with a very high defence, it was very tricky.”
“It was a hard-fought victory and the reason we are happy, above all else is, because we won, we continue to progress.”
“We always had faith that we could come back into the game as we have the players to do it. We were also unlucky not to score in the first half, whilst the goals did arrive in the second.”
Barcelona are now going to face Real Madrid in the second leg of the Supercopa de Espana, which will take place at the Santiago Bernabeu on 29th of August.
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