Levante vs. Barcelona: Score, Reaction from 2016 La Liga Game

Levante have simply 17 factors from 22 video games and can look to former Italian worldwide Guiseppe Rossi to offer some firepower as they appear to keep away from relegation.

Atletico are also a striker down having sold Jackson Martinez to Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande for 42 million euros ($46.7 million) Wednesday, but Luciano Vietto is expected to return to accompany Antoine Griezmann in attack.

“What matters to me are the team’s objectives”, said Enrique, who took charge of a Barcelona game for the 100th time on Sunday.

“He deserves a lot of respect and, when you’ve had the results they have, it means you have a very good coach”, he told the media. With a game in hand, Barcelona has a three-point lead over Atletico Madrid and a four-point advantage over third-place Real Madrid. Levante stopper Marin made a brilliant save to deny Neymar just after a quarter of an hour, but could not deny his own teammate from scoring, as an unlucky deflection of Navarro’s back gave Barcelona the lead.

Neville has yet to win in eight La Liga games since taking his first managerial role in December and with Valencia set to visit fellow strugglers Real Betis on Sunday. “We will be missing important players but those who get to play will certainly be ready”.

It took an own goal from Levante defender David Navarro to break the deadlock after 21 minutes and Levante missed several chances to level, while midfielder Jose Luis Morales hit the post, until Luis Suarez added Barca’s second in injury time. The Valencian club have lost their last five head-to-head meetings with Barcelona, including a 4-1 defeat in the reverse fixture at the Nou Camp in September.

The match also marked Luis Enrique’s 100th game in the dugout of the Catalan giants, but he insisted that building on last season’s treble success and claiming more silverware has a greater weight than statistics. “We were able to go ahead in the first half but Levante played well and pressured throughout the game”.

Lionel Messi had a goal wrongly ruled out due to an incorrect offside decision two minutes later; Verza clearly playing the Argentine onside from Iniesta’s scything throughball.

Barcelona was coming off a 7-0 rout of Valencia in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey. Could they grab a late goal here and find an equaliser? It has outscored opponents 34-5 its last 10 games.