Ousmane Dembele News

In the first half, Barcelona started off well with attacking forays into the rival half. Real Madrid was slow to get into their strides in the initial stages of the match.

Ousmane Dembélé scored in the first half and Barcelona held on for their first league win of the year. Dembélé scored with a low shot from close range after a set up by Gavi Páez.

Young Barcelona academy striker Ferran Jutgla scored the winner with a cross-shot from the corner of the box after a counter-attack.

Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten Inc, who are one of Barcelona’s sponsors, said the pair’s comments were ‘unacceptable’.

FC Barcelona beat second division Gimnastic 3-1 in a pre-season friendly on Saturday, with Philippe Coutinho and Ousmane Dembele both scoring on their returns. Barcelona will sit out the first two weekends of the new La Liga season which began on Saturday due to participating in the Champions League `Final Eight` tournament last month. Barcelona face Girona next Wednesday in another friendly before making their league bow against Villarreal on September 27.

Barcelona forward Ousmane Dembele has been ruled out for six months after undergoing an operation on his torn hamstring.

The champions were without captain Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, and Ousmane Dembele and fell behind to a thumping volley from Roberto Torres early in the game.

Barcelona will seek redemption after a disappointing first league match of the season at the San Mames stadium, where it was handed a last-minute 1-0 defeat, reports Efe news.  

Dembele sustained the injury during the Spanish club's 0-1 defeat at the hands of Athletic Club in the opening clash of La Liga at San Mames in Bilbao on Saturday.

Celta`s captain and talisman Iago Aspas then sealed the win by converting from the penalty spot after another VAR review ruled that Barca`s Samuel Umtiti had handled the ball.

Dembele came off the bench to score Barcelona`s final goal in Wednesday`s 5-1 thrashing of Olympique Lyonnais which sent the Catalan team into the quarter-finals of Europe`s top competition.

Coutinho, who arrived from Liverpool in January 2018, has so far shown little to suggest he will be able to compensate for the Frenchman's absence against Lyon.

Barca won a penalty early in the second half when Luis Suarez was fouled and Messi converted to put the league leaders in front and the Uruguayan forward made sure of the points with a simple finish from close range in the 82nd minute.

A dominant yet wasteful Real ravaged their rivals in the first half while spurning a string of clear chances at the Santiago Bernabeu. 

The French forward had put his disciplinary problems aside in the last two months, carving up opponents with his unpredictable dribbles and forming a profitable trident with Messi and Luis Suarez. 

It is unclear whether Messi, the all-time top scorer in Spanish football as well as in the `Clasico`, will be fit for the game after ending Barca`s 2-2 draw with Valencia on Saturday with a knock.

He joined Barcelona to much fanfare for a club record 142 million pounds from Liverpool and was hailed as the long-term replacement for former Spain international Andres Iniesta.

With Barca trailing 2-1 from the first leg, coach Ernesto Valverde recalled the club's all-time top scorer Messi as well as Jordi Alba and Ivan Rakitic while starting without first-choice striker Luis Suarez.

The league leaders want back-up for Luis Suarez after Sevilla agreed a one-million-euro ($1.15-million) deal to buy Spain international Munir on Friday, leaving the Uruguayan as the only No. 9 at the club. 

Spurs were facing a much-changed Barca side who had already qualified in first place and started without talisman Lionel Messi but they fell behind to an astonishing run and strike from Ousmane Dembele in the seventh minute.