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Barcelona 5-2 Atletico Madrid: La Liga Match Full Goals Details

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Lionel Messi scores a nice goal against Atletico Madrid

Barcelona got ready to face their visitors Atletico Madrid on Saturday evening, as they were expecting three more points to reach the top of the table.

Indeed, things started quite well for the hosts, as Thierry Henry fired a long-range shot at the target only 55 seconds in the game, but he was denied by the cross-bar.

About a minute later, Sergio Busquet’s wonderful ball found Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the danger area, and the Swedish international made no mistake, as his scuffing strike rolled across the Madrid goal-line.

The Castellans’ goalie Roberto then had to come off his line to save his side from conceding another goal after 13 minutes, when Messi almost tapped the ball from a Henry cross.

16 minutes had passed and Barcelona were hungry for more. The playmaker Lionel Messi brillantly chested down Xavi’s decent ball before tricking a helpless Roberto to score the second.

6 minutes later, Atletico Madrid had the chance to pull one back trough a sloppy Catalan defence, but Maxi Rodriguez failed to punish his opponents’ carelessness.

After seeing their rivals wasting a series of chances, the Brazilian full back Dani Alves was given the chance to increase his side’s tally trough a free kick. Unsurprisingly, Atletico’s keeper wasn’t able to stop Alves’ lashing shot which went in off the post for the third goal.

Barcelona were then in cruise control… A nice flick from Ibrahimovic saw Messi doing some extraordinary foot words so as to square the ball into the 6 yards box for Keita to get on the scoring sheet with his side’s fourth goal of the night.

Late in the first half, Ibra was fouled inside the penalty area; however the referee refused to award the home side a penalty. The Colchoneros then broke away, and thanks to a dreadful header from Barcelona’s midfield, Sergio Aguero eventually looped the ball past Victor Valdes for the visitors’ consolation.

With 5 minutes to go, Atletico Madrid were hoping to reduce the goal margin, and fortunately for them, their Uruguayan forward Diego Forlan gave them their second goal trough a superb bullet from 20 yards.

The match was not over yet…

In the dying seconds of injury time, a nice combination from Andres Iniesta and Dani Alves provided Messi with a cool chance. Of course, being aware of his contender Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal scoring abilities this season, Messi knew he couldn’t miss; and he brilliantly drove the ball into the net to clinch his second goal of the day, and seal a deserved win for Barcelona.