Deportivo vs Barcelona : picture gallery and best moments
Barcelona brushed off talk of an impending doom and romped to victory at the Deportivo vs Barcelona encounter to stay top of La Liga in style.
Deportivo vs Barcelona : picture gallery and best moments
The Nou Camp club had lost four of their last five matches in all competitions before Wednesday’s Deportivo vs Barcelona game, and had taken just one point from the last 12 in the current league.
But there was no hint of uncertainty in their play last night and they went for their hosts early, pinning them strongly back with full-backs Dani Alves and Jordi Alba bombing on recurrently.
Inside 15 minutes of the Deportivo vs Barcelona they were ahead, too, with Luis Suarez shrugging off Sidnei at a fine corner to volley home.
Ten minutes later he doubled their lead, this time brilliantly sweeping past Manu from a Lionel Messi through ball.
After the break, the floodgates opened and rampage followed.
Ivan Rakitic added a third, before Suarez scored even two more. Messi netted another, then Marc Bartra and Neymar also eventually got their names on the scoresheet.
The Uruguayan had gone three La Liga matches without finding the net before this, so he responded magnificently in the only way he knows how.
Two in the first 20 minutes of this game put his side brilliantly on front foot and he should have made it a fine hat-trick inside the first half of the Deportivo vs Barcelona encounter.
Depor had a number of clear-cut opportunies to score, particularly at 1-0 down when Celso Borges squandered an apparent unmissable opportunity from three yards out of the net.
Neymar managed to silence his critics finally and find the back of the net for the first time since the team’s 2-2 draw with Villarreal.
The Brazilian even added an assist – and an unbelievably unselfish one at that – just to underline his stunning return to form.
