Everything seemed assured for Barça in Balaídos when they arrived with a margin of 2 to 0 in the last minutes of the matchbut there the Galicians dealt two blows, in the 84th and 86th minutes, to leave the Catalans with a very bitter point.
At the beginning of the match, an error by former Barça player Óscar Mingueza, who failed to head a ball from a pass from Frenchman Jules Koundé, led to Raphinha sending the ball into the back of the goal in the 14th minute of play.
In the second part, andThe Brazilian player stole a ball in the middle of the field that provoked a counterattack completed by the Polish Robert Lewandowski to rise at 60 the second both to the light.
Raphinha has eight goals so far this season in the league tournament, his best record with Barça and only surpassed by the 11 he scored with Leeds United in his day in the Premier League, while Lewandowski consolidates his lead as top scorer of this edition of the championship, with 15 goals.
But when it seemed that the three points would fly to Catalonia, the visitors were left with ten players due to Marc Casadó’s double warning, which caused the Blaugranas to enter a phase of nervousness that ended up costing them dearly.
A huge mistake by Koundé, who rested on his laurels with the ball inside the area, caused Alfo to steal the ball and beat Iñaki Peña in the 83rd minute.
Two minutes later, Hugo Álvarez equalized the match by feinting against defender Héctor Fort and beating the Barcelona goalkeeper with a cross shot.
In the 76th minute, Raphinha was close to scoring what would have meant a three-goal difference, but his cross shot was repelled by the post.