FC Barcelona Schedule

Valencia put themselves into the lead against FC Barcelona at the Nou Camp with an eighth minute goal that left the stadium silent. However, as the Catalans got into the match they began to dominate. And once Lionel Messi, on his 200th league appearance, opened Barcelona’s scoring the Catalans proved to be unstoppable. According to TVNZ:

World Player of the Year Messi led the fightback with two goals in five minutes to put them ahead by the 27th minute as Pep Guardiola’s side responded with some irresistible football.

Messi went on to score four goals in total with another from Xavi to end the match 5-1. Barcelona remain 10 points behind Real Madrid, but have opened up their lead over third place Valencia.

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It’s all over for Barcelona as far as the Spanish League is concerned this weekend after their second defeat of the season opened up Real Madrid’s point gap to 10. According to CRIEnglish.com:
Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola rested international trip Cersc Fabrigas, Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta and saw how Osasuna controlled the game in the [...]

Saturday night saw freezing temperatures across much of Spain and so Real Sociedad visited the Nou Camp in the bitter cold. While the Catalans went 2 goals up thanks to Tallo and Messi, the visitors scored just two minutes after Messi’s goal. The team had a number of B team players due to Guardiola resting [...]

FC Barcelona lost further ground to real Madrid on Saturday in a goalless draw against Villarreal. Meanwhile Madrid took three points and opened up their lead over the Catalans to seven points. According to The Age:
Barca made several chances in the first half but found Lopez in the way, which helped Villarreal’s confidence to [...]

After Wednesday’s win against Real Madrid and another clasico coming up this week, Pep Guardiola rested some of his star players in this league match against Malaga. The hosts seemed keen to score early on, but Victor Valdes made sure it didn’t happen. According to The Offside:
A nouveau riche Malaga side that is slowly coming [...]

Currently five points behind arch-rival Real Madrid, FC Barcelona needs to do everything it can to ensure no more points are lost in the league. With Real Madrid winning their match against Mallorca on Saturday, Betis looked like it would be a straightforward win. However:
Barcelona squandered a two-goal lead before seeing off 10-man Real Betis [...]

Barcelona played Espanyl in the local derby last night to come away with a single point and to find them five points behind the league leader, Real Madrid. According to ABS-CBN News:
It was far from a vintage performance from Barcelona but they looked in control and they could have had a second from Messi who [...]

FC Barcelona cruised to victory against Real Madrid on Saturday night with a 3-1 win. According to Xinhua:
A win for Madrid would have left them six points clear of Barca with a game in hand and Jose Mourinho’s side got a perfect start when Karim Benzema scored after 25 seconds following a poor clearance from [...]

Barcelona showed that they are very much in contention for the league title this season after a 5-0 win against Levante. The first division newcomers have showed an impressive run of games are currently in fourth place but had little to do to counter the Barça onslaught. According to IEWY News:
Having watched on as Real [...]

After their defeat by Getafe at the weekend, many have started to write Barçá off already. However, a win against Rayo Vallecano last night should have silenced critics. Firstpost says:
Barca were given a quick chance to respond to their 1-0 away defeat to Getafe at the weekend as yesterday’s fixture was brought forward due to [...]