{"id":116138,"date":"2026-08-16T18:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/116138\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:19:19","slug":"catalan-party-barcelona-flex-their-muscles-with-a-thrashing-of-basel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/116138\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan party: Barcelona flex their muscles with a thrashing of Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona secured a big 5-2 win over Switzerland&#8217;s Basel on Sunday evening as part of their preparations for the new season.<\/p>\n<p>Karim Adeyemi, Hamza Abdelkarim and Lamine Yamal all found the net, with Bessio adding a brace to complete the rout.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundodeportivo.com\/futbol\/fc-barcelona\/20260816\/1004216635\/2-5-fiesta-azulgrana-basilea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mundo Deportivo<\/a> reviewed the key moments of a match in which Barcelona wasted no time taking control. They threatened Basel&#8217;s goal through the wings inside the first ten minutes, with Gordon and Adeyemi carving out some dangerous chances.<\/p>\n<p>Espart also went close, firing from the edge of the penalty area only to see his effort clear the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>As the half wore on, Basel began to smother the visitors&#8217; attacks. They even came close to opening the scoring through Aaron Malouda.<\/p>\n<p>Then, just as Basel were enjoying their best spell, Barcelona struck. Raphinha whipped a cross to the far post and Adeyemi pounced, lashing it home with his left foot.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha and Fermin both had chances to extend the lead before the break. They spurned them, and Barcelona paid the price.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, Doucour\u00e9 seized on a poor clearance from the Barcelona defence and rifled the ball into the net for the equaliser, sparking wild scenes among the home fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona secured a big 5-2 win over Switzerland&#8217;s Basel on Sunday evening as part of their preparations for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[15383,77,55415,55414,56600,56601],"class_list":["post-116138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basel","tag-barcelona","tag-basel","tag-basel-vs-barcelona","tag-club-friendlies","tag-h-abdelkarim","tag-l-yamal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117106570981031133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}