First Division - Day 9

Barcelona 3 – Eibar 1

Barcelona: Claudio Bravo; Dani Alves, Piqué, Marc Bartra (Mathieu 56‘), Jordi Alba; Rakitic, Mascherano, Busquets; Sandro (Munir 56’), Luis Suárez, Neymar. 4-3-3.
Eibar: Riesgo; Capa, Mauro Dos Santos, Pantic, Juncà; Escalante, Dani García (Eddy 46‘); Keko, Verdi (Sergi Enrich 54‘), Takashi Inui (Saúl Berjón 79‘); Borja Bastón. 4-2-3-1.

Goals:
0-1. 10. Borja Bastón. Turned shot back into net after Bravo saved Keko shot.
1-1. 21. Luis Suárez. Header into net after Sandro played across Busquets centre.
2-1. 48. Luis Suárez. Controlled Neymar cross and fired shot wide of Riesgo.
3-1. 85. Luis Suárez. Chested down Neymar pass and struck shot past keeper.

Yellow cards: Rakitic 50’, Escalante 60’, Juncà 67’, Pantic 83’, Piqué 91’, Neymar 92’, Capa 92’, Eddy 93’ / red cards: Mascherano 83’.

Barcelona stay level with Real Madrid at the top of the table after coming from behind to beat Eibar 3-1 on Sunday. The Basque side had not lost away from home this season, and Borja Bastón gave them a surprise lead in the tenth minute after Bravo could only push out a shot from Keko. But within ten minutes Barça were level, Luis Suárez running in to head past Riesgo after Sandro played across a long pass from Busquets. The visiting keeper had to save from Rakitic later in the first half, and Sandro and Neymar went close, and three minutes in to the second half Suárez picked up an assist from Neymar and made himself space to shoot inside the near post. With seven minutes to go the locals were left with ten men after Mascherano was sent off for supposedly insulting a linesman, which could result in a long ban for the Argentinian player, but a couple of minutes later Suárez made sure of the three points, completing his hat-trick with a low shot past Riesgo after controlling another pass from Neymar.