BARCA vs Man City friendly

Barcelona drew 3-3 against Manchester City in a club friendly at the Camp Nou on Wednesday, with Riyad Mahrez scoring a last-minute goal from the spot.

This time, Riyad Mahrez made no mistake to execute a calm finish ending the match all-square after 90 minutes if tense football. While the result of the match looked sealed, a last moment penalty conceded by Barcelona’s Andreas Christensen gave Man City a chance to equalise for the second time in the match. In the second half, Frenkie De Jong scored from a Memphis Depay assist in the 66th minute, while it took just four minutes for Guardiola’s side to make a comeback.

European giants play a 3-3 draw but the match was to raise awareness for ALS, a life-threatening disease that former Barcelona player and coach, ...

Guardiola said post-match: “The artist here is Unzué, who made this possible, because of his stubbornness and all his people pushing and pushing to do it. “I thank Barcelona and Manchester City first. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a degenerative-neuro disease that has no cure at present and has life expectancy of four to five years.

It might seem strange to play a friendly match three weeks into the season, but there's a good reason for Man City facing Barcelona on Wednesday.

[Mamelodi Sundowns](/soccer/team/_/id/7084/mamelodi-sundowns). Two clubs where he spent more time than Barca, [Argentinos Juniors](/soccer/club/_/id/3/argentinos-juniors) and [Boca Juniors](/soccer/team/_/id/5/boca-juniors), did not get an invite. [to play an A-League All-Stars team in Sydney](/soccer/report/_/gameId/635190). Just three days earlier, they lost their penultimate game of the season, which was their only defeat in that campaign, 5-4 to [Levante](/soccer/team/_/id/1538/levante). ET on ESPN+ in the U.S.](https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/53eae0b4-f6e1-44a1-a702-601febabb135#bucketId=40626)). Barca have made no secret of their desire to sign the player -- president Joan Laporta even made a joke of it at that presentation in June -- but he will be wearing City blue on Wednesday. [Real Valladolid](/soccer/team/_/id/95/real-valladolid) ( [stream LIVE at 1:30 p.m. He followed Luis Enrique to Barca a year later, where they went on to win the Treble in 2015. City, coached by Unzue's friend Guardiola, were an obvious opponent and also a glamorous one in terms of generating interest. He also has strong links with Barcelona, where he was the club's backup goalkeeper between 1988 and 1990, although it is as a coach that he is most renowned at Camp Nou. There is hope, though, after a summer of more spending, that they're ready to reassert themselves as one of the continent's best sides -- especially under coach Xavi Hernandez, Guardiola's protege, who will be facing his mentor in the dugout for the first time. This friendly was originally scheduled to take place last year, but it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.