Barca Left Frustrated By Deportivo Comeback

After missing the recovery session on Thursday for personal reasons, Argentinian football superstar Lionel Messi trained as usual on Friday with Barcelona to prepare for La Liga match on Saturday against Deportivo La Coruna.

Barcelona was coming off a 1-1 draw at Valencia in the league last weekend, when it also conceded a late equalizer. Chasing a sixth Spanish league title in eight years, Barcelona are two points clear of second-placed Atletico Madrid at the top after 14 matches, with Real Madrid a further two points adrift in third.

“These things happen and we will analyse it and try and make sure it doesn’t happen again”.

“The end is unexplainable, we lost control when we needed it and facilitated the opposition”, he told Canal Plus.

Concerns were raised over a potential hamstring injury for the Argentina captain after he was seen clutching the back of his leg during Barca’s 1-1 Champions League draw with Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday.

“If Messi, Suarez and (Andres) Iniesta also want to stay at home and save themselves for the Club World Cup, we’d accept it”, said Perez.

Luis Suarez missed a golden chance early on, firing just wide after being set up by a Sandro header and generally Barca had plenty of the ball but found little space.

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates scoring the opening goal during…

Suarez was off target again with a piledriver just before the break, but it was Deportivo who made the better start to the second-half and Bravo had to be alert to claim Faycal Fajr’s attempted chip. The four-time Ballon d’Or victor stepped nearly casually up to a free-kick 25 yards from goal and curled it with near perfection into the corner of the visitors’ net, past helpless goalkeeper German Lux.

However, Perez was not to be denied his 11th goal of the season moments later as he outmuscled Jeremy Mathieu to slot home.