Barça Battle Back for Tie

The Coquitlam Metro-Ford Barça '96 team battled back to tie the Alouette Ultra 3-3 at the Pitt Meadow Athletic Park on Saturday afternoon.

The game was very wide open, poorly defended by both teams and if not for some poor finishing the score could have ended up 10-9 for either team.

Barça came out complacent and found themselves 2-0 down after 15 minutes. Krsto Lulic scored on a breakaway for Barça but Alouette salvaged one more to head into the half up 3-1 after some more poor defending.

After a stern lecture at half time and a refocusing of the team goals for the second half, Barça set out to "win the second half" and salvage some form of pride after being out worked and out played for 25 of the 35 minute first half by a weaker team in the league.

Thanks to a slightly higher work rate and gritty play, Barça battled back and tied the score thanks to goals from Giordano Baldonero and Michael Mobilio.

Many chances went a begging for both teams and a tie was probably a fair result considering the play throughout the game.

Thanks to a 1-1 tie between Surrey Guildford and Chilliwack Impact, the worst Barça can finish is 5th in the league. Barça still have an outside chance to finish 4th but must get some very favorable results in their make up games against both Surrey Guildford and Chilliwack and hope that Richmond drop points in their last make up game versus North Shore Selects.

Barça are currently in 5th place with a 8-5-5 record on the season for 29 points.