Marcos Alonso opens his Barcelona account in the Champions League

Marcos Alonso opened his account for Barcelona with a goal in the Champions League on Tuesday. The Spain defender opened the scoring against Viktoria Plzen six minutes into the game after being first to the rebound after Ansu Fati's shot was saved.

He was also involved at the start of the move. It was his pass that broke the press. He then burst forward to follow the move, throwing himself to the ground to get ahead of a Viktoria Plzen defender to score his first goal for the Catalans.

In addition to being Marcos Alonso's first goal as a Barça player, it was also the first of the Xavi era in the Champions League away from home and the defender's first in the top continental competition. Playing for Chelsea and Fiorentina, he had scored in the Europa League but not the Champions League.

Left-back Alonso was playing as a central defender once again, forming a partnership with Gerard Piqué due to the fact that Barça had Eric Garcia and Koundé absent.

This season, Xavi is using him in many games in this position because it is where there have been the most injuries. As a starter, and with Ter Stegen and Robert Lewandowski not participating in the game, he became the player in the squad who accumulated the most minutes in the Champions League this season.

In fact, Alonso made his debut as a starter for Barça in the second match of the league against Bayern Munich. In the league, he debuted against Cádiz.