Barça, with Vermaelen, suffers, but has Leganes

FC Barcelona, ​​with Thomas Vermaelen on the pitch throughout the match, defeated Leganes (3-1) on behalf of the 20th La Liga Day. This is the sixth victory of rank for the Catalan club, which is still leading the Spanish league.

The Catalans opened the score shortly after the half-hour game via Ousmane Dembélé. Well served by Jordi Alba in the rectangle, the French saw his recovery of the flat foot enter the bottom of the goal via the post (1-0, 32nd). Shortly before the hour of play, the club of the Madrilenian region equalized on a counter-attack concluded by the Danish Martin Braithwaite (1-1, 57th).

Ernesto Valverde then chose to bring Lionel Messi, Ivan Rakitic and Malcolm to make the difference. It is precisely on a long shot by Messi, that Ivan Cuellar was not able to capture, that Luis Suarez gave the advantage to his people in good fox of the surfaces that he is (2-1, 71e) . Vermaelen, for his fourth Liga match this season, showed himself in the final minutes with a decisive intervention on an opposing striker. In the complementary time, Messi was at the conclusion of a nice move with Jordi Alba. This is the 18th goal in as many Liga matches for 'La Pulga' this season, the 25th in 24 games in all competitions.

In the standings, Barca leads with 46 points, respectively 5 and 10 more than Atlético and Real Madrid. Leganes is 14th with 22 units.