Recreativo berjuang kembali dengan keuat dan beberapa kali menciptakan peluang bagus di dekat gawang Barca, terlebih lewat serangan balik yang mendebarkan pada akhir babak pertama.
Recreativo fought back strongly, however, and gave the Barca back four several scares with their quick counter-attacks and had them on the ropes at the end of the half.