Messi, Xavi, Luis Enrique, Iniesta, Rakitic | Top Barca News 19.1.15

“If you can’t link up well with Messi, football’s not for you” – MARCA.com (English version) 

www­.marca.com – Xavi gushed with praise for Lionel Messi while speaking to reporters the day after the Argentine’s fabulous hat-trick humbled Deportivo. “If you can’t link up well with Messi, football’s not for yo…

Enrique finally settles on his best XI – ESPN FC

www­.espnfc.com – It took 27 matches. That’s how long Luis Enrique needed to finally field the starting XI that pretty much every Barcelona fan around the world had been asking for since the beginning of the season….

Leo Messi is back! – MARCA.com (English version)

www­.marca.com – Leo the ambitious, Leo the goalscorer, the most unnerving of players, is back. Maybe it’s just a fleeting, deceptive apparition, but the old Messi certainly is back. Against Deportivo de la Coruña …

Iniesta: “From now on we’re bound to be even better” – MARCA.com (English version)

www­.marca.com – Barcelona continue to play the same lively, creative football which they showed against Atlético. Andrés Iniesta sounded optimistic and hopeful, “What’s to come from now on is bound to be even bett…

Lionel Messi, record breaker

www­.sport-english.com – Three-and-a-half months after Lionel Messi’s last away goal in La Liga, he struck again and did it in style, with a hat-trick in the Riazor in Barcelona’s 4-0 win over Deportivo de la Coruna. Messi…

Barcelona – Neymar maturity and importance at Camp Nou make him Ballon hopeful – ESPN FC

www­.espnfc.com – As the Brazilian saying goes, if someone’s grandmother had two wheels she would be a bicycle. But it is interesting to think what could have happened in the 2014 Ballon d’Or voting if Juan Camilo Z…

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