La liga review

Last Sunday Barcelona victory put the squad just one point behind leaders Real Madrid at the top of the table and marked Lionel Messi 300th La Liga appearance and 31sh hat-trick.

In third place, current champions Atletico Madrid is now seven points of the top after losing 2-0 at Celta Vigo.

Last victory marked an incredible 11 wins in all competitions for Barcelona and despite eight changes from Copa del Rey squad, the team

never looked in danger.

Also with this run, Barcelona has tied Pep Guardiola’s best run during his successful four-year spell as Barcelona squad manager. Despite this figures, Luis Enrique insisted to the press that winning at the season’s end is what matters and that records are positive but they have no interest for him.

Victories are important for the fans and they need to be optimistic, but at the end, it’s not a matter of how many games we win, what is important is that the help us to win trophies.

The team had a subdued start with only Messi, Neymar and Mascherano as the only survivors from the 3-1 cup semi-final victory over Villareal. But this ended after the first lucky goal from Neymar.

Atletico Madrid on the other hand was a shadow of the team that trashed Real Madrid with a  convincing 4-0 final score and last weekend they had their fifth defeat of the season and most likely ended with their title hopes.

Celta was able to dominate the first half of the fixture but without any clear opportunity but they had their opportunity thanks to a penalty signaled by the referee when Nolito was upended by Mario Suarez.

Nolito scored the first goal and Athletico came alive but all hopes were lost  just 20 minutes before the end of the match, Michael Krohn-Dehli fed Fabian Orellana who put the ball into the far corner.

Valencia won their match against Getafe with a penalty 19 minutes from time and their victory moved them into fourth position of La Liga table.

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