{"id":334164,"date":"2025-08-10T21:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334164\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:57:16","slug":"marcus-rashford-missing-open-goal-leaves-three-stunned-barcelona-teammates-with-head-in-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334164\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford missing open goal leaves three stunned Barcelona teammates with head in hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Rashford missed a golden opportunity to score his first home goal for Barcelona on Sunday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hosts raced into a comfortable first half lead as Fermin Lopez scored twice alongside Raphinha and Lamine Yamal’s strikes, however, Rashford<\/a> missed the chance to make it 5-0 on the brink of half time.<\/p>\n

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Rashford missed an open goal on his home debut for Barcelona against ComoCredit: FC Barcelona\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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The on loan forward started at the Johan Cruyff Stadium on Sunday nightCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

After Yamal won the ball back inside the visitors’ half, he slipped his team-mate in on goal.<\/p>\n

Rashford rounded onrushing goalkeeper Jean Butez to leave himself an empty net, only to slide his left-footed attempt wide of the post.<\/p>\n

His shocking miss left Raphinha, Lopez and Eric Garcia with their heads in their hands.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rashford let out a smile despite the miss as he jogged back into position.<\/p>\n

It would be one of his final contributions to the match before being withdrawn during the interval.<\/p>\n

Ferran Torres replaced the loanee ahead of the second half, with Barca grabbing their fifth minutes later through Yamal.<\/p>\n

The Spanish giants faced Como at the Johan Cruyff Stadium at their training ground in their latest pre-season clash.<\/p>\n

It is the final match before Hansi Flick’s side begin the new campaign, with the fixture serving as their annual Joan Gamper Trophy encounter.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for Rashford, he had already opened his Barcelona account during their Asian tour.<\/p>\n

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Rashford’s miss left three of his team-mates with their heads in their handsCredit: FC Barcelona\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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The England international had earlier provided an assist for RaphinhaCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Having made three appearances during the trip, he scored in a 5-0 win over Daegu<\/a> in their final match before returning to Spain.<\/p>\n

It follows his arrival on a season-long loan<\/a> from Manchester United last month.<\/p>\n

Barca also have the option to make the move permanent at the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n

When could Rashford make his LaLiga debut?<\/p>\n

However, Rashford has yet to be registered for the new LaLiga<\/a> season due to the club going over their salary cap.<\/p>\n

Both he and fellow summer signing Joan Garcia are currently facing a wait for their league debuts.<\/p>\n

Barca begin their campaign away to Mallorca on Saturday as they start the season with three fixtures on the road.<\/p>\n

Marcus Rashford jokes with Lamine Yamal before netting first Barcelona goal<\/p>\n

Their first home match against Valencia is scheduled for September 14 to coincide with a return to the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n

The club are hoping to make their long-awaited return to the iconic stadium after two years of redevelopments<\/a> to increase the capacity to 105,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford missed a golden opportunity to score his first home goal for Barcelona on Sunday night. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[199,67158,15217,103,4117,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-como","10":"tag-lamine-yamal","11":"tag-marcus-rashford","12":"tag-raphinha","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115006711441902346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}