Robbo
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It happened because Barcelona didn't take their chances when they had them early on.
Rashford, as you saw, just had those chances.
And they didn't play quite as well as they normally do in an attacking sense in that first half.
They tried to press the ball a little bit higher up the field.
They made it quite difficult for Barcelona.
Barcelona were the better team for the first 20 minutes.
But the game changed, obviously, completely in terms of the scoreline with the free kick and the sending off.
But in the second half, Barcelona still dominated the play.
They still created one or two good chances without them being clear-cut chances.
But they were always vulnerable on the counter-attack.
And Sola, as he's done so often against Barcelona, comes on as a sub, gets in the right place at the right time, as Craig just said, gets in between the centre-halves, gets in front of Martin and finishes it brilliantly.
And for all their huffing and puffing, for all their decent play, Barcelona...
just couldn't find the breakthrough.
They probably missed five or six chances without them being absolutely sitters.
Sorry, Rob, I thought you'd finished.
Well, when I first saw it, I thought it's got to be a red card.