La Liga Set For A Exposure-finish As The Top 3 Look To Give No QuartersLa Liga Set For A Exposure-finish As The Top 3 Look To Give No Quarters
Competitive football seems to be pickings its toll on FC Barcelona as the Catalan club struggled to overpower 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 leadership 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 refer though, with a Barcelona side going into the final examination stretch looking well 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 fixture had now soured into a must-win. The Catalan side did not look their offensive best and put up an uncharacteristically drab first half. But tables soured real swift 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 queer Barca 39;s title take exception, made a inevitable error, gift Ivan Rakitic and Barca their first goal of the day when Rakitic broached hoem the spillover from Adan. Luis Suarez plastered the deal with some nonsubjective finishing as the Uruguay striker judged Messi 39;s pass to perfection and slid the ball home as late as the 81st minute.
The public presentation was far from memorable, but fans went home satidfied as the league remit remained the same with only one fewer play off to play. In the last two matches, Barca only need to oppose 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 bowler hat would have set the touch tongues wagging, with the La Liga no stranger to swage victories. But Espanyol 39;s choppy drop in form substance Barca will always have the upper hand. The Granada oppose is reputed to be more aggressive though, with the side fight hard to keep their place in the top tier of Spanish table football rental game.
Barca 39;s recent slouch in the tone of football game though, has raised concerns over the depth in their squad. Football critics say it is high time administrators and managers pay match tending to a star side and rest their starters to avoid fa in the final stretches for overworked pavilion players. To put matters in view, Barca looked to romp home with a 24th title win with 10 points between them and the nighest competitors from Madrid. As of now, Luis Enrique and Co. would be happy to crawl over the line and into the refuge of Nou Camp with a La Liga trophy to show for their efforts. But Spanish football game is in the midst of things right now as Atletico look to drive 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 gear up to join the Madrid ranks for their Wednesday mending and it seems James Rodriguez, the Colombian omen, seems set to make a summer move out of Real as English, Italian and German clubs line up to sign him on.