PROFESSIONAL SPORTS / BARÇA B Demotion in a year of lessons 24 FINAL CLASSIFICATION 20th in Division Two – LaLiga 123 SQUAD GOALKEEPER: Jokin Ezkieta, Adrià Ortolá, Alberto Varo DEFENCE: Daniel Morer, Marc Cucurella, José Antonio Martínez, Rodrigo Tarín, Martin Hongla, Sergi Palencia, David Costas, Samuel Araújo, Jorge Cuenca, Juan Miranda MIDFIELD: Christian Rivera, Ferran Sarsanedas, Carles Aleñá, Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta, Carles Pérez, Victor Hugo, Marcus McGuane, Oriol Busquets ATTACK: Matías Nahuel, Marc Cardona, Ballou Jean-Yves, Jose Manuel Arnaiz, Abel Ruiz COACH: Francesc Xavier Garcia Pimienta *Gerard López (left 25 April 2018) ASSISTANT COACH: Pau Martí The blaugrana second-team dropped a division this season, returning to Second Division A. First Gerard López, and then Francesc Xavier Garcia Pimienta, in the last six days, were unable to prevent demotion of the second team in La Liga 123, in a year in which they had the youngest squad in the category, with an average age of 21.2 years. Despite a fine start to the championship, and even after placing fifth by the fourth match, Barça B were unable to avoid demotion, ending the penultimate match with a draw at Albacete. In all, they had 44 points, with 10 victories, 14 draws and 18 defeats, scoring 46 goals and conceding 54. The run of eleven games without a win, between matches 28 and 38, with seven consecutive defeats, proved a dead weight for the team which, in decisive moments of the season showed their inexperience, in spite of reinforcements brought in from the winter transfer window. The year’s good news was the Second Division A debut of youth players like Miranda, Monchu, Riqui Puig, Collado and Alejandro Marqués. The latter began the campaign with Youth B and finished up playing between Youth A and the second team. What's more, Aleñá played a number of games on Ernesto Valverde’s first team, and even Arnáiz, Cucurella, Oriol Busquets and David Costas saw debuts under the blaugrana manager. FC BARCELONA REPORT PROFESSIONAL SPORTS / BARÇA B RESULTS MATCH DATE MATCH RESULT GOALSCORERS 1 19.08.17 Valladolid - FC Barcelona B 1-2 Choco Lozano, Marc Cardona 2 28.08.17 FC Barcelona B - Tenerife 0-3 3 01.09.17 Granada - FC Barcelona B 2-2 Ruiz de Galarreta, Abel Ruiz 4 09.09.17 FC Barcelona B - Cordoba 4-0 Aleñá, Arnáiz (2), Choco Lozano 5 17.09.17 Alcorcón - FC Barcelona B 1-1 Aleñá 6 25.09.17 FC Barcelona B - Lugo 1-2 Aleñá 7 01.11.17 Nàstic - FC Barcelona B 0-0 8 08.10.17 FC Barcelona B - Oviedo 1-1 Arnáiz 9 11.10.17 Numancia - FC Barcelona B 1-0 10 14.10.17 FC Barcelona B - Lorca 1-0 Arnáiz 11 20.10.17 Osasuna - FC Barcelona B 2-2 Concha, Aleñá 12 29.10.17 FC Barcelona B - Seville Athletic 1-1 Aleñá 13 05.11.17 Cultural Leonesa - FC Barcelona B 1-1 Lozano 14 11.11.17 FC Barcelona B - Osca 0-2 15 19.11.17 Rayo Vallecano - FC Barcelona B 1-0 16 26.11.17 FC Barcelona B - Almeria 1-1 Lozano 17 02.12.17 Reus - FC Barcelona B 2-1 Arnaiz 18 08.12.17 FC Barcelona B - Sporting 2-1 Aleñá, Arnaiz 19 15.12.17 Cadiz - FC Barcelona B 3-1 Marc Cardona 20 19.12.17 FC Barcelona B - Albacete 0-1 21 06.01.18 Zaragoza - FC Barcelona B 1-1 Abel Ruiz 22 13.01.18 FC Barcelona B - Valladolid 0-1 23 21.01.18 Tenerife - FC Barcelona B 1-3 Carles Pérez (3) 24 27.01.18 FC Barcelona B - Granada 3-0 Aleñá, Miranda, Marc Cardona 25 04.02.18 Cordoba - FC Barcelona B 1-2 Aleñá, Nahuel 25 26 10.02.18 FC Barcelona B - Alcorcón 0-1 27 18.02.18 Lugo - FC Barcelona B 1-2 Nahuel (2) 28 24.02.18 FC Barcelona B - Nastic 1-1 Marc Cardona 29 02.03.18 Oviedo - FC Barcelona B 0-0 30 11.03.18 FC Barcelona B - Numancia 2-2 Aleñá, Abel Ruiz 31 18.03.18 Lorca - FC Barcelona B 1-1 Cucurella 32 25.03.18 FC Barcelona B - Osasuna 0-2 33 01.04.18 Seville Athletic - FC Barcelona B 3-1 Vitinho 34 07.04.18 FC Barcelona B - Cultural Lleonesa 0-1 35 16.04.18 Osca - FC Barcelona B 2-1 Aleñá (pen) 36 22.04.18 FC Barcelona B - Rayo Vallecano 2-3 Monchu, Ballou 37 28.04.18 Almeria - FC Barcelona B 1-0 38 06.05.18 FC Barcelona B - Reus 0-1 39 13.05.18 Sporting - FC Barcelona B 2-3 Aleñá, Marc Cardona, Nahuel 40 20.05.18 FC Barcelona B - Cadiz 3-1 Marc Cardona (2), Nahuel 41 27.05.18 Albacete - FC Barcelona B 0-0 42 02.06.18 FC Barcelona B - Zaragoza 0-2 GOALSCORERS 11 Aleñá 4 Choco Lozano 7 Marc Cardona 3 Carles Pérez, Abel Ruiz 6 Jose Arnaiz 1 Cucurella, R. de Galarreta, Vitinho 5 Nahuel FC BARCELONA REPORT .