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Barca youngster channels Real’s Guti with ludicrous backheel assist (Video)

Published 22:29 2 Dec 2015 GMT

Darragh Murphy
Barca youngster channels Real’s Guti with ludicrous backheel assist (Video)

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At 20 years of age, we were stumbling down steps in a lecture hall.

That's what makes Sandro's composed assist on Wednesday night so very impressive. Through on goal, most 20-year-olds would have either taken a snap shot in the hope of just getting it on target or tried to snazzily take it around the onrushing goalkeeper. Not Sandro who, to be fair, had already scored a hat-trick on a rare start for Barcelona when he decided to offer up his chance to a teammate in stunning circumstances. The young Spaniard didn't even have to look over his shoulder as he felt Munir El Haddadi making a run into the box, backheeled the ball into his path and left an open goal for him...
If it brought with it a sense of déjà vu, Guti did something very similar for Real Madrid to set up Karim Benzema against Deportivo La Coruna back in 2010... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwsmBdL9jR8

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Barca youngster channels Real's Guti with ludicrous backheel assist (Video)