First Division - Day 11

Mallorca 1 - Barcelona 4

Mallorca: Prats; Varela, Ballesteros, Nunes, Fernando Navarro; Pereyra, Basinas (Jordi 61'); Jankovic, Ibagaza (Diego Tristán 80'), Arango; Maxi López (Víctor 61'). 4-2-3-1.
Barcelona: Víctor Valdés; Oleguer, Márquez, Puyol (Zambrotta 63'), Van Bronckhorst; Iniesta, Motta, Deco; Giuly (Xavi 83'), Gudjohnsen (Ezquerro 72'), Ronaldinho. 4-3-3.

Team changes: Mallorca: Basinas, Jankovic for Jordi, Jonas Gutiérrez / Barça: Oleguer, Van Bronckhorst, Motta, Giuly for Zambrotta, Sylvinho, Edmilson, Messi.

Goals:
0-1. 43. Gudjohnsen. Took square pass from Deco and rounded Prats to score.
0-2. 58. Gudjohnsen. Picked up pass from Iniesta and steered shot wide of Prats.
1-2. 70. Víctor. Controlled Jankovic cross and beat keeper from wide angle.
1-3. 85. Iniesta. Ran on to Ronaldinho pass and clipped shot past keeper.
1-4. 91. Ezquerro. Connected with Ronaldinho pass to fire angled shot past Prats.

Barcelona are back on top after a 1-4 win at Mallorca on Sunday night. Frank Rijkaard's side were under pressure early on, especially from the battling Maxi López, who was looking to impress against the side who loaned him out. Jankovic and Basinas both went close as well, but Prats had to be on his toes to keep out a Motta header a few minutes later. And with a couple of minutes to go to half time Gudjohnsen put the visitors ahead, rounding the keeper to score after a quick passing move between Deco and Ronaldinho.

The Icelandic striker scored again a few minutes after the restart after Iniesta put him through, controlling the ball well and making himself space to strike an angled shot past Prats. Mallorca came back though, Víctor winning the ball off Márquez following a cross from Jankovic to beat Valdés from a narrow angle. But with eight minutes to go the islanders were left with ten men after Varela picked up a second booking for a foul on Deco, and Barça took advantage to score two more, Ronaldinho firstly setting up Iniesta for him to shoot wide of Prats, and then lobbing the ball through for substitute Ezquerro to volley home from left of the area.