Barcelona stuttered to a narrow 1-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv on Tuesday night time with Ansu Fati's 2d-half of strike giving Sergi Barjuan his first Champions League victory as meantime head instruct.
Barça failed to impress for the duration of however controlled to steady a crucial three points that movements them as much as 2nd in Group E and leaves qualification to the knockout stages in their palms with games left to play.
In a drab starting forty five minutes, the hosts carved out the higher opportunities with dynamic midfielder Mykola Shaparenko spurning two one-on-ones midway thru the first 1/2.
Barça did have some half-probabilities, with Eric Garcia's blocked header simply before the wreck the nearest they got here to scoring.
Dynamo endured to appearance the better aspect after the break but against the run of play Barcelona have been offered a penalty simply after the hour mark whilst Ansu Fati kicked Tomasz Kedziora's trailing leg inside the container. However, after a VAR evaluate, referee Ovidiu Hategan overturned his choice.
Little over five mins later Barcelona did locate an opener with Fati smashing domestic emphatically from Oscar Mingueza's deflected go.
Dynamo rallied after this setback and carved out multiple promising openings, however failed to finish. Substitute Benjamin Verbic had the first-class threat, having his located attempt properly stored by Marc-Andre ter Stegen.
Here are your Barça player ratings from Ukraine...
Marc-Andre ter Stegen (GK) - 7/10 - Rarely referred to as into movement however made a few key stops toward the end. Oscar Mingueza (RB) - five/10 - A risk from set pieces and pretty strong at the lower back. His crossing became offensively bad, although. Eric Garcia (CB) - four/10 - He's young, sure, but Garcia wishes to begin akin to something like a competent defender. It's getting stupid now. Lucky no longer to concede a penalty. Clement Lenglet (CB) - four/10 - So some distance off a number of the Barcelona defenders of the beyond it's laughable. Getting nutmegged within the 2nd half before going within the ebook summed up his a long way-from-convincing night time. Jordi Alba (LB) - 5/10 - Meh. Needed to offer greater within the final 0.33 to help destroy down Dynamo's low block.
Nico Gonzalez (CM) - 5/10 - Looks a real skills but changed into quiet right here. Sergio Busquets (CM) - 7/10 - Pretty properly. Gave Barcelona a stable base to dominate ownership, registering three interceptions, tackles and a near-ideal passing accuracy. Frenkie de Jong (CM) - 4/10 - Underwhelming. His smart passing actions and driving runs had been absent for maximum of the sport.
