Thursday, January 14, 2016

Barcelona’s Munir El Haddadi completes Copa demolition job on Espanyol

Barcelona’s Munir El Haddadi completes Copa demolition job on Espanyol

 Espanyol 0-2 Barcelona
 El Haddadi, in for suspended Luis Suárez, scores twice
Munir El Haddadi produced his best Luis Suárez impression after stepping into the Uruguayan’s shoes at the point of Barcelona’s attack against Espanyol.
 Munir El Haddadi produced his best Luis Suárez impression after stepping into the Uruguayan’s shoes at the point of Barcelona’s attack against Espanyol. Photograph: Manu Fernandez.
Munir El Haddadi scored both goals as a Barcelona side missing several regulars beat their city rivals Espanyol 2-0 for a thumping 6-1 aggregate success in the last 16 of the Copa del Rey.
...Lionel Messi, fresh from collecting a fifth Fifa Ballon d’Or award on Monday, sent El Haddadi clear to round Francesco Bardi and open the scoring with a deft finish at Espanyol’s Cornellà-El Prat .
..The academy graduate, who has had limited playing time since his promotion from the B team, made it 2-0 two minutes from time with a tap-in from Aleix Vidal’s centre.
El Haddadi was deployed up front in place of Luis Suárez, suspended for his part in a fracas after last week’s bad-tempered first leg, with the likes of Neymar, Andrés Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Gerard Piqué rested.
Felipe Caicedo caused some problems for the Spanish and European champions’ defence but Marc-André ter Stegen was equal to anything the Ecuador striker could throw at him.

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