On Sunday, Barcelona B continued their winning streak at home at the Mini Estadi, beating CD Tenerife 3-1 courtesy of goals by Jonathan Soriano, Nolito and Carmona. The team, with five wins and two losses so far this season, are currently in fourth place in the standings with 15 points (and only 3 points behind league leaders Celta and Rayo Vallecano). Details of the match are below, along with an update on Abraham’s injury and highlights of the game.

Line-up:
Oier Olazábal
Martín Montoya 
Marc Bartra
Sergi Gómez
Abraham Minero
Oriol Romeu
Sergi Roberto
Carlos Carmona (Ilie Sánchez, 71′) 
Cristian Tello (Victor Vázquez, 63′)
Nolito 
Jonathan Soriano (Rubén Rochina, 79′)

Bench: Jordi Masip, VictorVázquez, Saúl Berjón, Ilie Sánchez, Armando Lozano, Marti Riverola and Rubén Rochina   

Goals:
1-0 J. Soriano (9′)
2-0 Nolito (39′)
2-1 M. Alonso (48′)
3-1 Carmona (69′)

Referee: Santiago Jaime Latre

Cautions: Carmona (18′), Abraham (23′),

Details of the match (from Barca’s official site):

“After seven games, Luis Enrique’s team have now won five and proven themselves unbeatable at home. The win against Tenerife came after a very serious performance, particularly in the first half that pleased the nearly 4,000 fans who came along to watch late on Sunday evening. The team played some good pacey football, with their trademark passing and entertaining attacking style.

“Jonathan Soriano opened the scoring on 9 minutes after a good start by Luis Enrique’s young charges, who seemed determined to put last week’s defeat in Cordoba behind them. Martín Montoya, who was tireless throughout the game, intercepted a Tenerife attack and put Nolito in, whose cross was met perfectly by Soriano to make it 1-0.

“Almost immediately after, Sergi Roberto nearly made it two, but his shot from outside the box was just turned round by Tenerife keeper Sergio Aragoneses for a corner. Although Barça looked sharp in defence, constantly cutting out Tenerife’s attacking attempts, the Islanders, who were many people’s tip for promotion at the start of the campaign, but now find themselves bottom, began to surge forward and Olazábal was forced into a good stop to keep out the dangerous looking Nino.

“Barça again upped the pace and were looking increasingly impressive both at the back and in attack and the second goal wasn’t long in coming. On 39 minutes, Cristian Tello, who was making his debut, crossed a ball from the by-line for Nolito to put away and double the lead.

“Tenerife showed that they were not giving up when Mikel Alonso pulled a goal back at the start of the second half with a deflected shot that gave Olazábal no chance and at 2-1 the visitors began to put the pressure on with a number of chances from dead ball situations that Olazábal did well to keep out.

“Luis Enrique brought on Víctor Vázquez to bring some order to the midfield and just when things were looking most difficult for the team, Carmona met a left wing cross from Abraham to seal the win on 68 minutes.

“Tenerife refused to lie down and although Barça were now very much in control again, Olazábal had to be on his guard as the visitors tried to get back into the game. Barça played the last few minutes with ten men after Abraham had to come off with an injury (more details below).

“The win leaves Barça in fourth spot with 15 points and the joint best home record in the division – four wins from four, eight goals scored and just two conceded.”

Update on Abraham: Abraham Minero will be out for approximately four weeks after dislocating his elbow in the 83rd minute of Sunday’s game against Tenerife, missing at least Barcelona B’s next four matches. 

Near the end of Sunday’s game, Abraham fell to the ground in a challenge with a rival, and suffered the injury. The recovery process of this dislocation is the immobilization of the affected area for three weeks, reducing the mobility of the limb with a cast. In the third week, the cast will be removed so that Abraham can return to the pitch between the eleventh and the twelfth day of competition, when the reserves will take on Villarreal B and Granada, respectively.

In the seven rounds played so far, Abraham had participated in five games, one as a substitute, in the debut in Vigo, and has been a starter for the last four matches, earning his spot on the left side of the Barca defense.

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