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Riqui Puig shines in Barcelona’s friendly win over Cartagena

Barcelona ran out 2-0 winners in their fundraising friendly against Cartagena on Wednesday thanks to goals from Carles Perez and Alejandro Marqués.

The game against the Second Division B side was arranged to raise money for victims of the catastrophic flooding in Murcia in September that affected around 30,000 people.

Manager Ernesto Valverde was without most of his top names due to the international break but still named a pretty strong starting line-up. Neto, Gerard Pique, Sergi Roberto, Junior Firpo and Ousmane Dembele all featured.

Obviously it was a friendly which meant plenty of substitutions, starting from the 36th minute, but surprisingly no goals in the first half.