The 1-1 Draw with Espanyol demeaned Barcelona’s performance and as a result Barcelona’s dream of returning to La Liga little has almost been shattered. The last match that has been played by Barcelona and Espanyol brings no winning for any of the team, but it affected the status of the team Barcelona more than the Espanyol, because due to this unsatisfactory performance of Barcelona, the team went behind Real Madrid with the difference of five points
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Considerably the overall performance of the team was not remarkable; but the last minute lead by Barcelona was exciting and can be termed as a good football. The header by the club’s most favorite Cesc Fabregas ignited the field for a few minutes and the club also found a ray of hope, but it was not enough to secure winning. However, this goal turned important for the club in the regard that it was the club’s 100th goal in all contests of this football season. Another important and remarkable point of the match was the low header by another strong player of the team Alvaro Vazquez. This equliser during the 86th minute of the match simply rocked the performance of club Barcelona.

The team Espanyol has en exciting young brigade who enhance confidence of the coach Mauricio and he said that the team would continue with this attacking spirit in rest of the matches as well.

Loan Verdu has been denied for two times during the match, once by Pique and again by the keeper- Victor Valdes.

When Fabregas of Barcelona headed home within the penalty area just after the 16th minute of the match, Barca took the lead. Instantly the keeper went slow to counter as the ball passed underneath the keepers dive.

The game plan changed rapidly during the restart as Gonzalo Higuin fought back along with Benzema. It was his 21st match of the league session and he succeeded to wrap the scoring just a minute before the match ended.

The assistant coach of the Real club, Mr. Aitor karanka commented that after the break the motion of the match started changing at it was the third goal that brought turned the match to Espanyol’s favor more than that of Barcelona.

Almost all of the stars of club Espanyol were happy and satisfied and Molina commented that they are happy because they have achieved it in exchange of hard work of all the players and due to a perfect team effort. The players of Espanyol are satisfied with their game plan. They are also expecting that they will be able to higher –up the table very soon.

In the Spanish La Liga FC Barcelona dropped five points just behind Real Madrid. This happened following a 1-1 draw with Espanyol. Barcelona was only able to do away with a draw with neighbors Espanyol in an exciting and controversial game. FC Barcelona was able to gain a first half lead against a motivated and forced home side attack. Barcelona was able to gain the lead following a head lead by Cesc Fabregas. This head goal by Cesc Fabregas was the 100th goal in all competitions of the season. Espanyol played with utmost intensity in the second half of the game. Barcelona never really looked comfortable in the second half of the game against Espanyol.

The score line read 1-1 as Alvaro Vazquez was able to score a header, five minutes before finishing time. The last match kicked off with Rayo Vallecano against Sevilla. Rayo Vallecano came up as the winning side as they won by a comfortable margin of 2-1 against Sevilla. Aritz Aduriz was able to score a late equalizer to enable Valencia to gain a 2-2 draw away to Villarreal. Betis was successful in registering a third consecutive win. Betis registered their third successful win of the season with a thumping 2-0 win over Sporting Gijon. Milan was successful in maintaining their lead too. AC Milan was successful yet again to maintain their lead in the Italian Serie A football.

AC Milan registered a 2-0 win against Atlanta in the last match as well. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Kevin-Prince were both successful in scoring goal. Their goal helped to keep AC Milan at the Serie A summit. At the Serie A summit, Juventus pressurized AC Milan. Juventus was by far the most consistent team for the entire season. Juventus was successful in maintaining an unbeaten record so far in this particular season. Alessandro Matri, whose performance below par in the previous games, was able to score the sole goal against Lecce.

The sole goal scored by Alessandro Matri helped Juventus beat Lecce by a margin of 1-0. Lecce always considered as a bottom ranked side could hardly put up any sort of resistance. This win of Juventus against Lecce helped Juventus to stay neck and neck with Milan. In some of the other matches played, Udinese was able to register victory against struggling Cesena by a convincing victory margin of 4-1. Roma defeated Chievo by a margin of 2-0, as Francesco Totti scored two convincing goals.