Barcelona beat Espanyol 3-1 and most likely the score will end like this and Barcelona will win. Dani Olmo made a great comeback by scoring 2 goals in the match. He will probably be the player of the match after the match. The difference in points is also increasing due to the postponement of the match between Real Madrid and Valencia. I think Barcelona will be the champions in La Liga this year. They are playing very good football in every way.
They always win very convincingly, playing some second-string players does not make Barcelona lose stability in attack. The first half is the key to being able to go through the next round more freely. Hansi Flick is very aware that in the second half Espanyol will not be able to turn things around so the rhythm of the game is a little more relaxed. Olmo has the freedom to pass the ball, open space, and score goals, he is a figure full of creativity. This year La Liga champions are unquestionable so Barcelona can shift their focus to the Champions League for a while.
Hansi Flick relaxed the game in the second half. Barcelona did not have half the effort of the first half. If they had continued the same game, they would have scored even more goals, but what was the point? Hansi Flick was after getting the three points without making the players struggle too much, and that's what happened.
Barcelona's rhythm in the first half was very good, Barcelona feels like they have a 15-20 point difference against Real Madrid right now.
They were already quite comfortable with 3 goals in the first half so it was only natural that they were more restrained so that the players would not be too tired when they won with a big score like this.
But even though the intensity of their attacks slowed down their dominance was maintained in this 90 minutes because even though the tempo they did in the second half was different from the first half but we must realize that in the end this match was still dominated by Barcelona.
Honestly, I'm annoyed with them for even looking comfortable with their position now especially since this week's Madrid match was postponed due to the flooding that previously occurred making their points too far now because the gap is 9 points for now.