Competitive football game seems to be pickings its toll on FC Barcelona as the Catalan club struggled to whelm a 10-man Real Betis side this weekend and edge to a 24th La Liga style. Record 32-time winners Real Madrid are just a aim off the leaders and Atletico Madrid are tied on 36 points with Barca, with the Catalans on pole with a superior goal remainder. Coach Luis Enrique has enough reasons for concern though, with a Barcelona side going into the final exam unfold looking substantially more worn out than Atletico and Real.
After Madrid beat Real Sociedad and Atletico eked out a win against Rayo Vallecano at the Vicente Calderone, Barcelona had their task cut out. The Betis reparatio had now sour into a must-win. The Catalan side did not look their offensive best and put up an uncharacteristically drab first half. But tables off real blue-belly when Heiko Westermann was shown a red card, reducing the Seville side to 10 men. Custodian Antonio Adan, having commented pre-match about how he 39;d love to baffle Barca 39;s style take exception, made a fatal wrongdoing, gift Ivan Rakitic and Barca their first goal of the day when Rakitic broached hoem the spillover from Adan. Luis Suarez covered the deal with some clinical finish as the Uruguay hitter judged Messi 39;s pass to perfection and slid the ball home as late as the 81st instant.
The performance was far from unforgettable, but fans went home satidfied as the league prorogue remained the same with only one less oppose to play. In the last two matches, Barca only need to pit their rivals 39; performances to take the La Liga title home. So what they are in essence looking at is a win against Espanyol at home followed by an away win at Granada. The Espanyol derby would have set the touch tongues wagging, with the La Liga no stranger to upset victories. But Espanyol 39;s jerky drop in form substance Barca will always have the upper berth hand. The Granada pit is acknowledged to be more militant though, with the side scrap hard to keep their target in the top tier of Spanish hire table football .
Barca 39;s Holocene epoch slouch in the timber of football though, has increased concerns over the depth in their squad. Football critics say it is high time administrators and managers pay touch attention to a star side and rest their starters to keep off wear upon in the final exam stretches for overworked pavilion players. To put matters in position, Barca looked to romp home with a 24th style win with 10 points between them and the closest competitors from Madrid. As of now, Luis Enrique and Co. would be felicitous to crawl over the line and into the refuge of Nou Camp with a La Liga prize to show for their efforts. But Spanish football is in the thick of things right now as Atletico look to home a 1-0 vantage in the first leg of their Champions League clash with Bayern Munich as they trip to the Allianz Arena. Cristiano Ronaldo is set up to join the Madrid ranks for their Wednesday repair and it seems James Rodriguez, the Colombian prognostic, seems set to make a summertime move out of Real as English, Italian and German clubs line up to sign him on.