Dembélé and Lewandowski, heads and tails in Barça's victory against the New York Red Bulls

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Ousmane Dembélé and

are, right now, the face and the cross of Barça's forward line.

While the Frenchman lives a sweet moment in front of goal and ends the tour of the United States with a scoring poker, after putting the Catalans ahead in the 0-2 win against the New York Red Bulls, the Pole, for now, remains denied facing the opposite goal.

It doesn't matter how much he sacrifices, how hard he tries, or how hard he wants it.

His first goal as a Barça player did not come, despite the fact that in training he continues to exhibit his proverbial punch.

Hence, when the ball repeatedly resisted kissing the net, he could not help but smile nervously and show a gesture of circumstances.

And that Xavi, of course, despite taking advantage of the last friendly of the tour of the United States to do new tests in his starting team, opted to keep it as the top reference in the lead.

finally returned to midfield, but the great novelty was seeing Dembélé and

at the forefront together on the pitch.

The former Bayern player, of course, exhibited his usual sacrifice to lower balls and press, but the goal, precisely what strikers are most valued for, for now, insists on turning his back on him.

And that, on the other hand, had unbeatable options to exorcise all the demons from him.

In the first really clear of his many chances, after running past several defenders inside the area, Lewandowski sent the ball over the crossbar.

Later, he watched as Coronel, the New York Red Bulls goalkeeper, frustrated up to three equally unbeatable options.

Above all, one that Dembélé left him almost on a silver platter, but that the Brazilian goalkeeper ended up taking out almost with the tip of his left foot after the Pole looked for a cross shot.

The French, precisely, and Raphinha dedicated themselves to taking the rival defense down the road with mobility and, even,

.

That the two can play perfectly together would be perfectly emphasized by the

, author of the 0-1 when the game was looking for rest precisely after the Brazilian's assistance.

Xavi, aware of how important it was for Lewandowski to finally celebrate a goal as a Barça player, left him on the pitch for more than 70 minutes.

And the Pole, of course, worked hard, not forgetting his generosity when it came to moving the ball if a teammate was in a better position than him.

However,

.

Meara relieved Coronel under the sticks in the New York Red Bulls, in this case, he was in charge of avoiding him on two occasions.

The first, after the ball was poisoned by touching a defender.

The second, after a tremendous shoe from the tip.

With Lewandowski already on the bench, Barça continued to find options to increase the distance on the scoreboard, but not the aim necessary to transform them against a rival who would play the final stretch of the match with one less player, after Edelman was sent off with a direct red card for a very hard entry on

.

The Cantabrian, despite the horrifying action, had no problems finishing the game, the last for the azulgrana on North American soil and which Memphis sentenced three minutes from the end of regulation with the final 0-2.

Xavi's men, in fact, will not play again until next Sunday, when they will face the

A meeting for which Mingueza, almost certainly, will no longer be available.

The defender, who is not part of Xavi's plans and did not even travel on the tour, as the club announced in a statement, will be transferred to Celta if he passes the mandatory medical examination without problems.

match sheet

New York Red Bulls

: Coronel, Cásseres, Harper, Klimala, Long, Luquinhas, Morgan, Sean Nealis, Reyes, Tolkin and Yearwood.

Also playing: Meara, Ofori, Nealis, Ndam, Mullings, Edelman, Sserwadda, Amaya, Fernandez, Clark, Barlow and Ryan.

Barcelona

: Ter Stegen;

Araujo, Christensen, Eric Garcia, J. Alba;

S. Busquets, De Jong, Gavi;

Dembele, Lewandowski and Raphinha.

They also played: Ansu Fati, S. Roberto, Kessié, Pedri, Nico, Aubameyang, Pjanic, Balde, Memphis, Iñaki Peña and Pablo Torre.

Goals

: 0-1: Dembélé (min. 40).

0-2: Memphis (min. 87).

Yellow cards

: Araujo, Cásseres, Piqué, Mullings.

Red card:

Edelman (min. 82).

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