On Tuesday night, after they finalized their roster in Champions League football news, Barcelona stumbled to a 1-0 win.
Barcelona won 0-1 away, over Dynamo Kyiv, with the help of Ansu Fati’s second-half goal. This single goal, all by itself, handed Sergi Barjuan his first Champions League victory as Barcelona’s interim head coach.
Despite failing to impress throughout, Barça still managed to collect a crucial three points.
They have thus moved up to second place in Group E. Barca are now in a strong position to qualify for the knockout stages with two games remaining.
Champions League Football News – Barcelona Stumbled to a 1-0 Win
The hosts carved out better opportunities than the guests in a dull first 45 minutes.
Creative midfielder Mykola Shaparenko even spurned two one-on-one opportunities midway through the first half.
But Barça had a couple of half-chances themselves, with Eric Garcia’s blocked header shortly before halftime coming the closest to a goal.
After the break, Dynamo continued to seem the better team. But, by sheer chance, Barcelona received a penalty reward against the run of play soon after the hour mark.
Ansu Fati booted Tomasz Kedziora’s trailing leg inside the area but referee Ovidiu Hategan changed his judgement after VAR’s review.
Fati smashed home emphatically from Oscar Mingueza’s deflected cross just over five minutes later to give Barcelona the 0-1 lead.
After this blow, Dynamo rallied and created a handful of excellent opportunities, but they were unable to capitalize on them. Substitute Benjamin Verbic had the finest chance, but Marc-Andre ter Stegen stopped his placed effort.
Dynamo Kyiv 0 – 1 Barcelona
Goals: 0 – 1 Fati 70
Bookings: Garmash, Buyalskyy; Garcia, Gavi, Lenglet
Dynamo Kyiv: Bushchan, Karavaev, Syrota, Zabarnyi, Kedziora, Shaparenko, Sydorchuk, de Pena, Buyalskyy, Tysgankov, Garmash
Substitutions: Lednev, Verbic, Vitinho, Tymchyk, Shepelev
Barcelona: ter Stegen, Mingueza, Garcia, Lenglet, Alba, de Jong, Busquets, Nico, Gavi, Depay, Fati
Substitutions: Balde, Dembele, Araujo
