First Division - Day 28

Eibar 0 - Barcelona 4

Eibar: Riesgo; Capa, Pantic, Iván Ramis, Juncà; Escalante (Hajrovic 85’), Dani García, Radosevic, Adrián González; Borja Bastón (Saúl Berjón 68‘), Sergi Enrich (Inui 90’. 4-4-2.
Barcelona: Bravo; Dani Alves, Piqué (Marc Bartra 80’), Mascherano, Jordi Alba; Rakitic, Busquets (Vermaelen 80‘), Arda Turan (Sergi Roberto 78‘); Messi, Luis Suárez, Munir. 4-3-3.

Goals:
0-1. 08. Munir. Got on the end of Luis Suárez cross to turn ball in on far post.
0-2. 41. Messi. Picked up ball in midfield and ran on to score with angled shot.
0-3. 76. Messi (penalty). After ball hit Ramis on the arm inside the penalty area.
0-4. 84. Luis Suárez. Collected Sergi Roberto pass and battle through to score.

Yellow cards: Radosevic 05’, Luis Suárez 48’, Ramis 70’, Dani García 82’, Mascherano 83’.

Barcelona maintain their eight point lead at the top of the table after a 0-4 victory at Eibar on Sunday afternoon, a result which extends their unbeaten run to 36 games. Munir took advantage of a rare start to open the scoring after Messi and Luis Suárez combined to set him up early on, and Suárez could have scored a second had the young forward not steered his pass wide in front of goal. For a while the locals fought back, Escalante shooting just past the post and Busquets almost putting through his own net, but with four minutes to go to the break Messi produced another “house special” after Capa gave the ball away to Munir, running on from midfield to fire an angled shot across Riesgo. That took the wind out of Eibar’s sails, and Messi shot wide before converting a penalty after Ramis slipped and blocked his pass with his arm. Luis Suárez rounded things off near the end with his side’s fourth, nut-megging Capa and holding off a couple of tackles to thread a shot past the keeper and in to the net, taking the total goals scored this season by the “MSN” front three to one hundred. Can anyone stop them from a historic second treble in a row?