Three and a half months had to pass to see Sergio Agüero officially with the Barcelona shirt. They were minuscule minutes of action for the 33-year-old forward in the triumph of the Culé team this Sunday 3-1 over Valencia at the Camp Nou.
The former Independent, Atlético de Madrid and Manchester City entered in the 86th minute replacing the American Sergiño Dest, who this time left his usual right-back position to move as an attacking winger in the scheme of the Dutch Ronald Koeman. The American had just scored last Thursday in his team’s 2-1 win over Costa Rica in the Concacaf Qualifiers.
Agüero had signed at the beginning of July with Barcelona, after being released from English City and with the aim of reuniting with his old friend Lionel Messi. Of course, fate gave him a bad move with the departure of the Rosario to Paris and, to top it all, an injury that left Kun out of the court at the start of the season.
With the victory, Barcelona reached 15 points and placed seventh, five points behind the leader Real Madrid, although with one game less. The goals of the Catalan team to overcome a history that began adversely – the defender José Gayá made it 1-0 for the visit after 5 minutes – were scored by Ansu Fati, the Dutch Memphis Depay – from a penalty – and the Brazilian Philippe Coutinho, at 13, 41 and 85 minutes respectively.
Earlier in the day, Elche, with a goal from ex-River forward Lucas Boyé and action by Pablo Piatti, Darío Benedetto and Guido Carrillo (Iván Marcone and Javier Pastore stayed on the bench), lost 2-1 on their visit to Rayo Vallecano, with former Boca Oscar Trejo and former Racing Esteban Saveljich as headlines.
Sevilla, with Lucas Ocampos from the beginning and the entry of Marcos Acuña and Erik Lamela, beat Celta by Eduardo “Chacho” Coudet 1-0, who had Matías Dituro in the goal and the entry of Franco Cervi (Augusto Solari did not enter).
For his part, former San Lorenzo Ezequiel “Chimy” Avila scored a goal -the first since his return after a torn ligament- in Osasuna’s victory as a visitor against Villarreal 2-1, where his compatriots Gerónimo Rulli and Juan Foyth played.
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