Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored 2 times as Barcelona tightened their grip on next area in La Liga on Tuesday with a 3-1 win at home to Celta Vigo.
But Barca’s victory was overshadowed by a terrible head damage to defender Ronald Araujo, who had to be taken away in an ambulance in the 64th moment of the match.
Araujo was lifted into the ambulance on a stretcher, sporting a neck brace. Barcelona confirmed the 23-calendar year-old “suffered a concussion and has been taken to the hospital to bear further testing”.
After the video game, Barca mentor Xavi Hernandez explained: “The doctor has explained to us he is acutely aware. He will commit the night time in the hospital but he is out of danger.
“The doctor stated we should not worry, that he will devote the evening in hospital as a precaution, very little more.”
Araujo’s injury arrived immediately after he and Gavi banged heads complicated for the exact same ball. Araujo stumbled on for a number of seconds before dropping to the flooring as a anxious Iago Aspas and Eric Garcia known as urgently for the medics.
The Uruguayan was set into the restoration posture and right after a couple minutes, he was lifted into an ambulance that experienced driven onto the pitch.
Aubameyang’s double both aspect of half-time arrived just after Memphis Depay experienced opened the scoring at Camp Nou. Celta pulled 1 again via Aspas but any hopes of a comeback were dashed when Jeison Murillo was sent off just prior to the hour.
“We have been successful but we did not enjoy very well,” said Xavi. “It was less complicated against 10 males but we struggled against 11.”
Barca move 7 factors in advance of Sevilla and eight in entrance of Atletico Madrid, with Sevilla and Atletico participating in just about every other at the Wanda Metropolitano on Sunday.
Real Madrid, who have currently been topped champions, sit 9 points crystal clear of Xavi Hernandez’s aspect at the top rated of the table, with a recreation in hand.
Securing qualification for future season’s Champions League previous weekend implies Xavi’s main aim has previously been realized but the club’s dire money situation signifies the group can however not find the money for to let up.
Each spot in direction of the prime of La Liga is value all over 7 million euros although qualifying for the four-staff Spanish Tremendous Cup by ending in the top two is worthy of a further eight million euros to the Catalans.
– Electric Aubameyang –
They ought to have the runners-up location sewn up just after yet another victory that owed much to Aubameyang, the 32-calendar year-previous scoring his 12th and 13th aims since joining Barcelona from Arsenal in January.
Aubameyang’s electric powered early sort has slowed a little in current weeks but it is tricky to believe of a Barca participant who has built a larger contribution to their resurgence in the 2nd fifty percent of the time.
Depay’s recreation-time has endured as a consequence of Aubameyang’s variety but they both commenced from Celta and it was Depay who gave the hosts the guide in the 30th moment, sweeping in right after s wonderful operate down the right by Ousmane Dembele.
Depay then turned service provider for Aubameyang’s very first as he latched on to Jordi Alba’s by means of ball and crossed for his Gabonese teammate to end on the change 4 minutes just before 50 %-time.
3 minutes right after the restart, it was three as Dembele recurring his earlier trick, driving down the right, rolling remaining, this time for the sprinting Aubameyang to steer into the corner.
Aspas capitalised on a Barcelona error as Araujo was caught on his heels right after Marc-Andre ter Stegen passed out to him in the penalty spot. But eight minutes later, Murillo was sent off for stopping Depay from heading by way of and Celta’s momentum was long gone.
True Betis experienced earlier held their best-four hopes alive by easing to a 3- get away at Valencia. Willian Jose, Sergio Canales and Borja Iglesias all scored aims in the next fifty percent.
Betis closed the hole to Atletico Madrid in fourth to a few factors, with Atletico taking part in a video game in hand absent at Elche on Wednesday.
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