Sometimes that happens! The young Barcelona star went to the toilet during the match. The Blaugranas played ten minutes shorthanded

Barcelona struggled in Wednesday’s Champions League match against Porto, but they took away three important points from the Portuguese champions. The game didn’t go well for Lamine Yamal, who had to run to the toilet during the match and his teammates had to play ten minutes shorthanded.

Barcelona secured top spot in the Group H table with the win in Porto

That will happen too! A curious situation occurred during the second round of the Champions League group stage. Barcelona’s young star had to go to the toilet. His teammates played ten minutes shorthanded.

Wednesday night was a battle for the Iberian Peninsula. The home team, Porto, welcomed the favourite in Group H, the star Barcelona. There was no shortage of motivation.

Both teams were victorious in the first round. The winner of the clash would move to the top of the table and secure a solid starting position ahead of the group stage, where Shakhtar Donetsk and Belgian Antwerp are also fighting to qualify for the knockout stage of the millionaire competition.

The home side started the game better, but did not capitalise on the initial pressure. The match was a midfield battle, which resulted in many fouls, which were awarded yellow cards by the referee. There were nine of them in the match.

In the 34th minute, there was a shock for all the Catalan giant’s supporters. Robert Lewandowski, the visitors’ biggest star, had to leave the pitch early due to injury. The Polish forward was replaced by Ferran Torres, who opened the scoring in injury time after a beautiful pass from Gündogan.

Porto also failed to take advantage of a curious situation that gave them a numerical advantage

Even after the change of sides, the home side continued to slightly dominate. However, all attempts to equalise were frustrated by the attentive defence of the Catalans. Porto players then got a huge advantage in the 71st minute.

Lamine Yamal left the pitch and disappeared into the bowels of the stadium during a stoppage in play. His departure was strange because no one came on the pitch to replace him. The Barcelona players were thus playing with ten men at the end of the game before Marcos Alonso came on ten minutes later.

After the match, coach Xavi then shed light on the strange situation surrounding Barcelona’s young star. “Yamal was not feeling well, he had been complaining of some problems for a while. I took advantage of the interrupted play to let him go to the toilet quickly. But in the end I was told that he would not be able to return to the pitch,” explained the situation after the game.

The Porto players did not take advantage of the extra man. The result was not changed by the sending off of Gavi, who had to take an early shower for a second yellow card at the very end of the match. Barcelona are now 100% in the Millionaire’s Cup and top of Group H.

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