El Clasico: FC Barcelona visit Real Madrid for key game in title race
Football | April 10, 2021 10:18 ISTBarcelona trails struggling league leader Atlético Madrid by one point, while Madrid is just three points adrift.
Barcelona trails struggling league leader Atlético Madrid by one point, while Madrid is just three points adrift.
The star status of the Barcelona forward, whose contract expires this summer, has been built on numerous titles and scoring records, as well as his exploits in one of soccer's top rivalries.
A late winner by Ousmane Dembele gave Barcelona control of its own fate in the race for La Liga title.
The six-time Ballon d'Or winner had a penalty saved by goalkeeper Keylor Navas on the stroke of halftime, his first miss from the spot in the Champions League since 2015.
It is the first time since 2005 that neither Messi nor his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo have reached the last eight of the Champions League.
PSG heads into Wednesday's game with a 4-1 lead from the first leg, which Neymar also missed against his former club after sustaining an adductor muscle injury on Feb. 11
Barcelona extended its undefeated run to 16 league matches to keep the pressure on Atlético a day before it hosts third-place Real Madrid in a Spanish capital derby.
Over 110,000 members are eligible to cast ballots on Sunday to choose from three men: former president Joan Laporta, businessman Víctor Font, and longtime board member Toni Freixa.
Barcelona said tests conducted on Thursday showed that Piqué has “a sprain in the internal lateral ligament of his right knee.”
Gerard Pique's injury-time goal forced the game into extra time, before Martin Brathwaite netted in the winner for Barcelona.
Court officials said Bartomeu and his former adviser at the Spanish club, Jaume Masferrer, used their right not to make any comments.
Police said detentions were made but did not say who or how many people were taken into custody.
Barcelona will visit Sevilla on Saturday with the team in third place, five points adrift of leader Atlético Madrid.
Barcelona move back to third place in the league standings, two points behind second-place Real Madrid and five from leader Atlético Madrid.
Five days after being beaten 4-1 by Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, Ronald Koeman’s side saw two points slip away when substitute Álex Fernández converted an 88th-minute penalty conceded by Clement Lenglet.
After Messi put Barcelona ahead from the penalty spot, Mbappé netted a hat trick at the Camp Nou Stadium on Tuesday to give PSG a 4-1 win in the first leg of their round-of-16 matchup.
The same teams will meet Tuesday at the Camp Nou for the first time since Barcelona routed PSG 6-1 nearly four years ago.
Messi showed why Barcelona agreed to keep him an extremely rich man when on Sunday he acted as Ronald Koeman’s super-sub, scoring one goal and setting up another to help Barcelona earn a 3-2 win at Real Betis.
Barcelona trailed 2-0 going into the 88th minute before Messi helped create goals for Antoine Griezmann and Jordi Alba as the Catalan club kept alive its chance of ending its title drought.
Details of Messi’s 555 million euro ($671 million) contract over four seasons were released by the El Mundo newspaper on Sunday, upsetting the club and instigating the promise of lawsuits.
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