Makara came to Barcelona and walked away with three points in the Liga Pro, beating the hosts 2-1 on Saturday evening. The result keeps the visitors in fourth place while the home side remain sixth after twenty-four rounds.
And here's the thing about the opening goal — it came at the thirty-seventh minute when M. Viera finished a move that had been building for a while. Just a minute later J. R. Quinonez Ruiz picked up a yellow card, one of two bookings for the match, the other going to F. Posse near the end.
Barcelona equalised through S. Diaz in the fifty-fourth minute and the game opened up. To be fair, the hosts had most of the ball but Makara looked sharper on the break. The substitutions started flowing from the forty-sixth minute onwards, with Quinonez Ruiz coming off early and Diaz also replaced in the second half.
By then the statistics told their own story. Barcelona held sixty-three percent possession and launched 151 attacks, yet created zero big chances while Makara managed three. The visitors took twelve shots with seven on target and hit fifty-four percent accuracy, whereas the hosts had twelve attempts and only one on target.
They were running out of games in this sense — Barcelona have not won since their last victory and the draw brought them together early in the table race. Makara sit five points clear with a better goal difference and more wins, so the away end never stopped believing until the final whistle.