{"id":64152,"date":"2026-08-01T07:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/64152\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:57:16","slug":"hamza-abdelkarim-steals-the-show-with-a-brace-in-barcelonas-draw-with-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/64152\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamza Abdelkarim steals the show with a brace in Barcelona&#8217;s draw with Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/youngest-egyptian-and-arab-player-hamza-abdelkarim-embraces-world-cup-glory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Egyptian striker Hamza Abdelkarim<\/a> stole the show after scoring two goals in Barcelona\u2019s 2-2 draw against Birmingham City in a friendly match on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly between Barcelona and Birmingham City took place at St. Andrew\u2019s Stadium in England as part of their preparations for the 2026-2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Barcelona\u2019s dominance and possession in the first half, they failed to find the net.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham opened the scoring through August Prisque in the 31st minute.<\/p>\n<p>Hamza Abdelkarim Scores<\/p>\n<p>At the 41st minute, Barcelona were awarded a penalty after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/hamza-abdelkarim-set-for-senior-barcelona-debut-in-pre-season-friendly-vs-ce-europa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Abdelkarim<\/a> was fouled inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelkarim expertly converted the penalty, leveling the score at 1-1 against Birmingham in the 42nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>He received a yellow card in the 44th minute for a strong tackle on a Birmingham player.<\/p>\n<p>The first half ended with Barcelona and Birmingham tied 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hamza Scores a Brace<\/p>\n<p>In the 60th minute, Abdelkarim scored his second goal and Barcelona\u2019s second against Birmingham City.<\/p>\n<p>The second goal came after Abdelkarim followed up on a powerful shot from outside the penalty area that was parried by the Birmingham goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian striker pounced on the rebound and fired it into the net with his left foot, putting Barcelona ahead 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelkarim was substituted in the 62nd minute after scoring twice against Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>In the 68th minute, Birmingham equalized through John Solis, making the score 2-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egyptian striker Hamza Abdelkarim stole the show after scoring two goals in Barcelona\u2019s 2-2 draw against Birmingham City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,15031,2265,25881,313,9303],"class_list":["post-64152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-football-club","tag-egypt","tag-egyptian-striker","tag-football","tag-hamza-abdelkarim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}