Coach Kiki Citin expressed his optimism with the strong performance of his team, leading Barcelona and the champion of the past two seasons, and allowed him to achieve a great victory over Real Mallorca by four clean on Saturday in the 28th stage of the Spanish Football League.
The victory of the Catalan club in its first match came after the competition stopped for about three months because of the new Corona virus, thanks mainly to its Argentine captain Lionel Messi, who contributed three goals, as he scored the last goal in stoppage time, and passed two decisive passes to the goals of Jordi Alba and Danish Martin Braithwaite.
"There was a lot of skepticism about the answers that we will give (in returning to the competitions after a long pause)," Citin said in comments after the victory. No one was sure what would happen. ”
"But everyone (the players) showed accuracy in dealing with the ball, of course some times we could have avoided losing it, we could have controlled more, but all of that would be fine when we improved our touch of the ball, and with time."
The coach stressed that "winning the match in this way gives us a lot of confidence in continuing the advantage we enjoy."
The victory allowed Barcelona to expand its lead in the arrangement to five points temporarily, while waiting for the second-place rivals Real Madrid to play their first match after the Corona Virus crisis, and later on Sunday against its guest Eibar.
Citin expressed his happiness at achieving a similar result in the first game after the League resumed "because such a start is a very positive sign for the future."
And pushed «Covid-19» to suspend the Spanish league competition, like most sports competitions around the world, in mid-March, before completing its competition this week behind closed doors and with a strict health protocol.

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