Barcelona ended their three-game winning streak in 2019 in emphatic style LaLiga and will stay at the top of the table for another week thanks to an impressive 5-1 away win at Mallorca Son Moix on Tuesday evening. Barça were the better team from start to finish against a Mallorca side that competed hard in the first 70 minutes of the game, but in the end the floodgates finally opened and Barça deservedly took all three points away with their best team performance in more than a month.

FIRST HALF

Barça had to weather an early storm at the start of the competition as Mallorca competed with great intensity and found themselves in some dangerous situations in the opening minutes, but the Blaugrana managed very well to protect his offside trap and not allow the home team any real chances.

The Blaugrana Slowly but surely they established their superiority by dominating the ball and took an early lead thanks to a terrible mistake from the Mallorcan defense that gave Ferran Torres one of the easiest goals he could ever score. The Catalans received a nice boost from the early goal and played even better, with Alejandro Balde and Raphinha combining well on the left wing and creating most of the danger on that side.

But the lack of efficiency in attack, familiar from recent games, once again troubled the visitors as Barça missed one chance after another, with Ferran being particularly wasteful in front of goal and both Dani Olmo and Lamine Yamal failing to turn promising attacks into scoring chances were able to convert some poor decisions in the final third.

Mallorca tried again and again to create a golden counter-attack opportunity, but failed again and again because of Barça’s offside trap, but with two minutes left, Pablo Maffeo managed to time his run just right and got a free run into the penalty area, where he made it possible for Vedat Muriqi easiest way to score an unlikely equalizer against the run of play.

Raphinha then had a huge one-on-one chance to put Barça back in front just before half-time, but was unable to beat the goalkeeper and wasted another huge chance for the away team. The half-time whistle ended a period in which Barça dominated and should have been leading by several goals, but until the last 45 minutes the game was somehow completely clear and open.

SECOND HALF

Barça continued to play solid football at the start of the second half and the decisive second goal came ten minutes later: Johan Mojica brought down Yamal in the penalty area and Raphinha scored a great penalty to put the visitors back in the lead.

Mallorca reacted well to being behind again and launched another lightning attack in search of the second equalizer, but that Blaugrana‘s offside trap continued to work brilliantly and prevented the hosts from having many possible chances to score.

The home team really got going and looked for another goal, but Barça delivered three knockout blows within ten minutes: first it was Yamal who delivered Raphinha’s spectacular goal for Raphinha’s second goal of the evening, then came Frenkie de Jong He came on as a substitute , scored his first goal of the season and assisted another substitute: Pau Víctor, who joined the scorer’s circle and made the final score 5-1 for the visitors achieved.

Yamal, looking to score himself in the final seconds, missed a big one-on-one strike at the crucial moment as Barça could easily have scored a sixth goal, but when the final whistle blew they had to Settling for just five goals to give them all three points in very impressive fashion.

This was without a doubt Barça’s best team performance in over a month. They dominated the game and looked very efficient on offense in the second half. And away in Mallorca, where pretty much every team is there LaLiga fights is even more satisfying to watch.

Well done, guys!

Mallorca: Roman; Maffeo (Morey 78′), Valjent, Raíllo, Mojica; Morlanes, Samu; Valery (Navarro 67′), Sánchez (Prats 78′), Darder (Rodríguez 67′); Muriqi (Larin 78′)

Goal: Muriqi (43′)

Barcelona: Pena; Kounde, Cubarsí, Iñigo, Balde; Casadó (Eric 82′), Pedri (Gavi 82′); Yamal, Olmo (De Jong 72′), Raphinha (Fermín 87′); Ferran (Víctor 72′)

Goals: Ferran (12′), Raphinha (penalty 56′, 74′), De Jong (79′), Víctor (84′)