Koeman shares too much of his thoughts with the referee about the decision and is shown a red card! This incident will have repercussions, for sure.
90' +6
Sergio Busquets gets yellow.
Busquets is booked for unsportsmanlike conduct. He knew he was doing. Sanchez was just about to try to find a cross.
90' +5
Lozano fires over from outside the box. Cadiz try again and get a free-kick to the right of the box as Busquets deliberately plays a second ball that has made its way onto the pitch.
90' +2
Cadiz are a little too eager to get forward and find a winner. Ter Stegen catches Sanchez's whipped cross.
90'
T. Alarcón gets yellow.
Alarcon is booked for that challenge on Depay. Barca have a free-kick in a central position. There'll be five more minutes in this game.
89'
Cadiz send a few more crosses into Barca's box which don't bear fruit. Depay drops deep to receive the ball and gets taken out by Alarcon's sliding tackle from behind.
88'
Carlos Akapo gets yellow.
After a wobbly few minutes Barca seem to have this situation under control. Akapo's booked for accidentally standing on Depay's foot.
86'
Araujo blocks Akapo's cross from the right and Cadiz have a corner. It floats all the way over to the far post and out for a Cadiz throw-in. Lozano goes down under Busquets' challenge but Barca end up getting a goal-kick instead.
84'
Barca keep the ball for a while as they try to slow Cadiz's advances, with Depay winning a free-kick from Chust. It doesn't work for long though. The hosts sense that the win might be there for the taking.
82'
Jonsson misses a header in the centre of the box as he reaches Perea's cross. Cadiz are trying their best to make their one-man advantage show in these final stages.
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80'
Riqui Puig enters the game and replaces S. Dest.
Barca make a change which suggests a change of shape. Dest goes off. Puig comes on.
79'
Carlos Akapo enters the game and replaces Iza Carcelén.
Cadiz make another enforced change. Akapo takes Carcelen's place at right-back in time to take a throw-in for the hosts.
73'
Nico González enters the game and replaces Gavi.
Barca make another substitution. Gavi off. The 19-year-old defensive midfielder Gonzalez, comes on in midfield.
72'
Gavi sends a cross into Cadiz's box which the hosts hook away. Barca still only need one good chance to get away from here with a win.
70'
Cadiz force a corner down their left off Mingueza. It's cleared but the Andalusians have the opportunity to cause Barca greater problems now if they can take it.
68'
Philippe Coutinho enters the game and replaces L. de Jong.
V. Haroyan gets yellow.
Haroyan is the latest player to pick up a booking for a poor challenge on Luuk de Jong.
Barca sacrifice Luuk de Jong so they can maintain their shape after his brother's dismissal. Coutinho replaces him.
67'
Fali hobbles back out from the changing rooms to sit in Cadiz's technical area. It's good to see the midfielder up and walking at least after his injury earlier.
65'
Sergi Roberto gets yellow.
F. de Jong gets a second yellow card and is sent off.
Roberto picks up a yellow card too for protesting the decision too much. Barca need to be careful not to let this setback affect them. The game is still in their hands, even if it will be tougher for them now with 10 men.
RED CARD FOR FRENKIE DE JONG! The Barca midfielder slides clumsily into Espino in an attempt to salvage a loose touch. He receives his second yellow card and he has to go! Koeman rubs his chin. Barca's players harangue the referee to no avail.
63'
Barca pressure Cadiz into defending their box. Cadiz are holding firm for now.
61'
F. de Jong gets yellow.
Frenkie de Jong receives the game's first yellow card for catching Alarcon in the face.
60'
Carcelen's effort from outside the box is blocked, handing Cadiz a corner. Barca let the ball stay in their box a little longer than they should but eventually get rid of it.
59'
Lozano gets involved in the game right away, giving away a foul on Araujo. Barca will have to deal with a new presence up front for Cadiz.
57'
A. Lozano enters the game and replaces Álvaro Negredo.
Alberto Perea enters the game and replaces S. Arzamendia.
Negredo also heads off the pitch after getting Cadiz's best chance so far. The Honduran forward Lozano comes on.
Here are those Cadiz changes. Arzamendia goes off first. Perea, a fellow winger, comes on.
56'
Cadiz are preparing a substitution. After keeping Barca quiet in the first half they need to act quickly to stop the visitors from gaining too much control.
54'
The game is opening up now. Arzamendia crashes an effort against a Barca defender from distance.
50'
Depay fluffs an opportunity to test Ledesma as Roberto rolls a cross towards him at the far post. Barca are growing in influence.
48'
Arzamendia wins a free-kick in his own half as he's fouled by Mingueza.
46'
Sergi Roberto enters the game and replaces Y. Demir.
Salvi Sánchez enters the game and replaces Álvaro Jiménez.
Both teams make changes at half-time. Barca go first as Roberto comes on to replace the quiet Demir.
Cadiz go next as Sanchez replaces Jimenez on their right flank. Jimenez didn't do much wrong in the first half.
Things have gotten going again here in Cadiz. Let's see whether those changes affect the game one way or another.
45' +3
HALF-TIME: CADIZ 0-0 BARCELONA
45' +2
Barca get one last chance to test Cadiz's defence in this half as they earn a free-kick. Depay dinks an effort into the box and Ledesma punches it away with Araujo looking to latch onto it. Jonsson drifts offside up the other end of the pitch. That'll be that for now.
45'
There'll be three additional minutes in this half due to Fali's injury earlier.
44'
The offside flag goes up against Demir. Barca haven't quite clicked yet going forward.
43'
Ter Stegen pushes the corner away from trouble before Cadiz send the ball straight back into the box. Barca deal with it well.
42'
Arzamendia bravely uses his head to win an aerial ball from Mingueza and buy a throw-in. The winger's cross hits a defender and earns Cadiz a corner.
40'
J. Jønsson enters the game and replaces Fali.
The Danish midfielder Jonsson replaces Fali in Cadiz's engine room.
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37'
Fali swings his left foot to make a routine clearance near the centre circle and immediately winces in pain before lying down. The midfielder looks in real discomfort. It seems unlikely he'll be able to continue.
35'
Dest outmuscles Jimenez to stop the winger from beating him down the right. The home crowd are unhappy. They're soon even more so as Busquets wins a foul off Sobrino in the centre of the pitch.
33'
Arzamendia holds the ball up near Barca's corner flag until Araujo forces him to concede a throw-in. Sobrino catches Ter Stegen as he clears from the back.
31'
Barca get a corner down their left. Depay's delivery bounces harmlessly out of play for a goal-kick.
28'
Barca change tack slightly as Ledesma punches away Dest's cross. The visitors eventually win a corner off Espino that Cadiz clear.
25'
Jimenez wins possession for Cadiz in his own half but can't do very much with it. Barca force a corner off Carcelen which they take short. Ledesma catches the whipped ball in.
23'
Busquets plays a direct pass from the base of midfield that bounces straight through to Ledesma in the Cadiz goal. Koeman gets to his feet to give his team some encouragement.
21'
Not a whole lot is going on. Neither team is having much luck in creating a shooting opportunity.
19'
Barca are finding Cadiz difficult to break down at the moment. The hosts look well-organised when they don't have the ball.
17'
Negredo loses an aerial challenge near the halfway line and hits the turf in an awkward manner. Play's stopped while he is helped to his feet.
15'
Jimenez tries to find Negredo with a cross but is unsuccessful. The Cadiz striker appreciates the effort all the same. Up the other end, Frenkie de Jong trips Jimenez as he wins a 50/50 ball.
13'
Jimenez holds up Dest's run, unfairly in the view of the American but the referee disagrees.
11'
Cadiz deal with the set-piece easily enough. The hosts certainly have nothing to be scared of so far.
10'
Arzamendia races through Barca's midfield to surprisingly little resistance until the visitors' defence eventually shuts the door. Alarcon trips Frenkie de Jong to give Depay the chance to swing a cross in.
8'
Barca earn their first corner of the game. Cadiz clear it after blocking Pique's header and Espino tries to counter down the left. Dest comes across to cut the attack out.
6'
Barca unconvincingly deal with the ball that Cadiz swing in. Luckily for the visitors Arzamendia steams into Gavi on the edge of the box and ends up giving away a free-kick.
5'
Jimenez looks to power down the right but finds his path blocked off by Busquets. The referee awards a foul against the Barca captain.
3'
Barca enjoy their first shot of the game as Dest teases Carcelen before firing over from the left of the box.
1'
We're underway here in Andalusia!
Hello! Welcome to our live text commentary of this LaLiga match between Cadiz and Barcelona at Nuevo Mirandilla.
Barcelona were lucky to salvage a 1-1 draw at home to Granada earlier this week, despite dominating possession. Ronald Koeman will need his team to put in a better performance this time around if they are to silence the doubters and catch up to the leading pack.
After a slow start, Cadiz finally got their first win of this LaLiga campaign last time out with a 2-1 away victory over Celta Vigo. Alvaro Cervera's Andalusians haven't fully convinced yet this campaign, but they'll be hoping they can now look up the table.
SUBS: Florin Andone, Juan Cala, Martín Calderon, Alberto Perea, Marcos Mauro, Alex Fernandez, Salvi Sanchez, David Gil, Jens Jonsson, Carlos Akapo, Anthony Lozano, Alvaro Bastida.
SUBS: Inaki Pena, Clement Lenglet, Eric Garcia, Philippe Coutinho, Samuel Umtiti, Riqui Puig, Sergi Roberto, Nicolas Gonzalez, Neto.
BARCELONA (4-3-3): Marc-Andre ter Stegen; Oscar Mingueza, Ronald Araujo, Gerard Pique, Sergino Dest; Pablo Gaviria, Sergio Busquets (c), Frenkie de Jong; Yusuf Demir, Luuk de Jong, Memphis Depay.
CADIZ (4-4-2): Jeremias Ledesma; Isaac Carcelen, Victor Chust, Varazdat Haroyan, Alfonso Espino (c); Alvaro Jimenez, Tomas Alarcon, Fali, Santiago Arzamendia; Ruben Sobrino, Alvaro Negredo.
The two teams are out on the pitch in Cadiz. Cadiz are wearing their yellow and blue home strip. Barca are wearing their light purple away kit. It's very smart.
Cadiz now travel to face Rayo Vallecano while Barca host Levante this weekend. Their third game of the week has to end in a win, for Koeman's sake. That's all for now. Goodbye!
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