Barcelona suffered a heavy defeat against Levante in a night where Messi shone

Barcelona's rematch of Levante's only defeat last season against their opponent 5-0 on Sunday against the hat-trick of Argentina star Lionel Messi in the sixteenth leg of the Spanish league, as Sevilla returns to the track with a beating Girona 2-0.

The Barca won 3-0 last season at home at Nou Camp, before falling 4-1 to Ciutat de Valencia on May 13. The only defeat against the defending champion was the 37th minute in advance (28 wins and 9 draws). His dream was to finish the season without losing.

The two teams will meet on January 9 and 16 during the 16th round of the Spanish Cup.

In the absence of several of his key players, Barcelona started threatening his goal by a 10th minute with two attempts from the Belgian head, Thomas Vermaelen, then by a shot from the outside. Emmanuel Boateng was the most active and dangerous player in Levante and lacked finishing.

19 goals for Macy in 17 games

Messi made three free throws and a center from Uruguay to Luis Suarez, the last of them in the net (35th), scoring his fifth goal of the last 5 games and his 11th of the season. In the league.

The defensive errors were aggravated by Levante and again exploited by Messi after Sergey Busquets placed the ball in the middle of the stadium and sent behind the defenders and broke the stealthy and unique Argentine pbad of goalkeeper Olathapal and scored the ball in his goal (s 43).

In the second half, Messi only allowed the hosts two minutes to add the third goal after a match between Suarez and Jordi Alba, who returned Uruguayan to Argentina and went straight into the goal of the match (47th).

Messi completed the "hat trick" after Suarez went over by one player and walked the ball to the left. He then sent a center from the Chilean Arturo Vidal to the right and sent it to Argentina in front of the goal followed by the last "plane" very easily in the center of the goal (s 60).

Messi has scored 19 goals in 17 games this season, including 14 in the league's top scorer and 397 in 432 games with the Catalan giants.

Levante, who was sent off by Uruguayan striker Erik Kabaco after a brutal intervention against Frenchman Osman Dembeli (S76), missed a fifth solo goal after a pbad from Messi. With more than one player, so he came in front of goal and shot. He hit the foot of substitute Kweki and challenged goalkeeper Olathapel (88).
Sevilla returns to victory

The Barca scored 34 points and kept his three points ahead of Sevilla, who had entered Girona in the previous two games against Deportivo Alves and Valencia (1-1), leaving Barcelona at the top of the table. The defending champion.

After winning the Champions League final against former Krasnodar champions 3-0 on Thursday, the Andalusians were able to claim superiority over the Catalans, who lost all three games against their rivals, Saison

Sevilla, who defeated Andre Silva (54) of Sevilla, and Argentine strikers Efer Paniga and Pablo Sarabia scored the winner in the second half. Against Krasnodar (art 64).

Sevilla scored 31 points in second place with the same number of points as Atletico Madrid, which defeated Valladolid 3-2 on Saturday, while Girona had 21 points in the middle of the standings after winning his sixth defeat of the season.

Espanyol was sidelined against Real Betis against Sergio Garcia (24), three goals for Giovanni Lu Celso (43), Christian Teo (85) and Oscar Duarte (90).

Espanyol remain in 11th place with 21 points, while Real Betis climbed to fifth place with 25 points, one ahead of Levante and Deportivo Alaves, who finished the match with Athletic Bilbao.

Huesca, the newcomer with Villarreal, scored two goals, Juan Camilo Hernandez (44th) and Samuel Longo (90th), for the Colombian Carlos Paka (63rd) and Gérard Mourinho (81st).

Villarreal has played with 10 players since the 64th minute to lead Mario Gaspar on the second yellow card.