3 Things That Went Wrong For Barcelona Against Celta Vigo

#2 Sergi Roberto's red card

Roberto's moment of madness in the 70th minute saw his sent off

70 minutes into the game, Barcelona led Celta Vigo 2-1 and looked very likely it would finish that way. Unfortunately for them, Sergi Roberto seemingly lost his sense of judgement and couldn't help himself from spoiling the party.

Iago Aspas' darting run granted him all the space in the world behind Barcelona's backline, and expectedly, the Spaniard galloped towards Marc-Andre ter Stegen's goal. Realising that Aspas was clear on goal, Sergi Roberto attempted to chase him down before eventually realising the futility of the idea.

Inches away from the edge of the box, Roberto decided to take matters into his own hands instead of trusting his own goalkeeper and put both hands around Aspas in a bid to slow him down.

Slow down, he did, but with no other Barcelona defender in the vicinity, Roberto was always going to be shown a card, and he was soon given his marching orders.

While the foul may have prevented the hosts from scoring then and there, the shortage of a man clearly made Barcelona vulnerable, eventually forcing them to concede the equaliser.

Had Roberto trusted ter Stegen, though, they may have been able to stop the goal, as well as maintain defensive solidity with all 11 men.

The ultimate question is, would you rather save a goal and get sent off, or concede a goal but keep your entire team on the pitch?

That was the call Roberto had to spontaneously take last night, and while he decided to go with the former, a very different result may have been chalked out had he decided on the latter.