Rayo Vallecano vs Barcelona Highlights, La Liga 2024-25: RAY vs BAR: 1-2 at Full-time!

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Here's the winning goal for Barcelona from Dani Olmo.
🚨🚨| GOAL: DANI OLMO HAS SCORED FOR BARCELONA!!!
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Rayo 1-2 Barca
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Here's the first goal for Barcelona, scored by Pedri.
🎥 FC Barcelona Goal
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⚽️ Pedri
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Watch the only goal scored by Rayo Vallecano.
Goal from Rayo vallecano 🤭#LaLiga
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This is how the top 6 teams of the La Liga table look with Barcelona taking the top of the table spot after winning all 3 of their first 3 matches. Currently, they are the only team in the league to still have a perfect score.
Player of the match:
DANI OLMO
Full-time statistics: Barcelona changed the face of the game in the second half and made a comeback. With 64.9% ball possession, they registered a total of 22 shots in total but only 5 of them were on target. On the other hand, ending the game with 35.1% ball possession, Rayo Vallecano registered a total of 8 shots in total and 4 of them were on target.
90+12' Rayo running riot in the last 4-5 minutes of the game, creating and missing several golden chances. The referee finally signals the end of the game after 2 minutes of additional time on top of the additional time but the scoreline still reading 1-2 in favor of the visitors, Barcelona.
90+10' Rayo receive a corner which could be their last and the Rayo gk comes up the field to help but the corner is a poor, poor one and nothing comes off of it. Moments later, they get a free-kick which keeps the ball in play and they get a golden chance to score which is saved by the defenders.
90+8' Bernal is now getting medical attention as he fell down after a clash with a Rayo player and it doesn't look like he can continue anymore as he limps at the sideines.
90+6' Bernal firing up in the last few minutes with a marvelous shot inside the Rayo box which was collected by the gk though. Seconds later, he chases and sacrifices for the team to stop a counter-attack and receives a yellow card. Minutes later, it was Olmo again creating problems inside the Rayo box, gets a ball inside to Raphinhah who just couldn't control the ball.
Pau Victor in - Lamine Yamal out for Barca.
90+3' 10 minutes is a long enough time to do some damage and turn a game on its head. That's why both teams are determined to get the ball inside the opposition box more as we are seeing more of a box-to-box action now.
90' Pedri falls down clutching his right leg after a bad foul from Ciss who sees a yellow card and as Pedri receives treatment for the injury. Pedri looked to be in a lot of pain as he went down and the coach just doesn't want to risk him anymore even if he isn't injured. So he is replaced by Fermin.
The referee signals 10 minutes of additional time.
Fermin Lopez in - Pedri out for Barca.
88' Rayo get a golden chance with them getting in the middle, ahead of every Barca player, anyone could guess he is offside but Balde kept him onside and linesman made a bullseye decision on it by not raising the flag but Barca also doing excellent to stop his movements before it grew more dangerous.
85' It will be big if Barca manage to get away with a win here but they still have a few minutes to hold onto this scoreline or score a few more to secure the scoreline.
82' Dani Olmo gets his first goal for this side and he puts Barca in lead.
80' Barca with a corner, taken short, reaches the box for defenders to clear and goes for another corner.
RAY 1-1 BAR
78' The game resumes after the cooling break with a throw-in by Barca but they find themselves in trouble again with Rayo managing to run with the ball to the opposition box and Embaba takes a shot which is then collected by MATS.
76' The game goes for another cooling break in this half of the game.
74' Drama ensues with the referee going to check the VAR and finds that Kounde fouling the very moment before the goal and the goal is then disallowed.
72' Barca take lead with Lewandowski finally getting his name on the scoresheet today.
70' It seems that Valentin is okay but the coach is not willing to take the risk, so he will remain out of the field,
RAY 1-1 BAR
68' Rayo forced to make that last change to the squad with Oscar Valentin picking up an injury and Pep Chavarria coming in his place and after some time now, they manage to create problems inside the Barca box.
66' Rayo coach makes two more changes to his team to shuffle his strategies and bring in some fresh legs and they are already making heads since they came on.
Randy Nteka and Gerard Gumbau in - Sergio Camello and De Frutos out for BAR.
32' The goal was coming for some time for Barca as Raphinha moves up the right flank and puts a simple ball inside to Pedri who finally finds a space to shoot it at the back of the net.
60' Pedri gets the equalizer for Barca.
59' Olmo takes a screamer of a shot from a long, long-range and it rattles the bar. What an addition this man has been for today's team.
57' Olmo has had quite an impact on the game since he came on and it's quite visible.
Pathe Ciss and Adri Embaba in - Unai Lopez and Alvaro Garcia out for RAY.
55' Another chance wasted by Lewy and another chance created by Olmo who runs with the ball from their own half and gets a pass to the Polish striker who controls the ball but unable to find the perfect angle to shoot, shoots it just left of the goalpost.
53' Barca receive a free-kick about 25m from the goal. Raphinha steps up to take the shot, takes it directly at the post, goes past the wall, the ball makes a curve but the gk manage sto grab it.
Rayo began the season with a solid 2-1 win away at Real Sociedad, followed by a goalless draw with Getafe in their most recent outing.
Inigo Perez's side have enjoyed a strong opening, with four points from two games, and now face two home fixtures in a row against Barcelona and Espanyol, before meeting Osasuna after the international break on September 14.
Barcelona, on the other hand, have also started well, kicking off their campaign with a 2-1 win over Valencia on August 17, followed by another 2-1 victory over Athletic Bilbao on Saturday.
Much of the pre-match discussion had centred around Nico Williams, who opted to remain with Athletic rather than join Barcelona, but Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski scored for Flick's team to ensure they took six points from their first two games.