Messi Returns As Suarez, Neymar Lead Barca Destruction Of Madrid

Real Madrid director Emilio Butragueno says now is the time for “unity” after the 4-0 thrashing by Barcelona on Saturday.

Victory would take Barca six points clear of Madrid at the top of the table.

Barcelona’s Argentine star Lionel Messi entered the game in the 56th minute after a two-month break. “It’s our eternal rival”.

“There is a long way to go but it is always important to win here”.

Benitez said his idea was for his players to try to pressure Barca and keep the ball.

FC Barcelona dealt a massive blow to Real Madrid’s Spanish league title hopes by defeating them 4-0 in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium here.

It was then the turn of Madrid two minutes later when Cristiano Ronaldo did brillantly to get past Javier Mascherano and then fizzed the ball across the face of goal but nobody in white could get on the end of the unsafe ball. “We have to forget this and learn from it”, he told Canal Plus.

“Whenever we win or lose we all have a part to play in the result”.

And with five minutes left, substitute Isco was shown a straight red card for a rash tackle on Neymar. Benitez said at a news conference. We were up against a great side; we made mistakes and were made to pay for them. The only thing we can do now is continue to work hard and see how we can improve for the next match. There was a minute of silence in honor of the victims in Paris, and a large French flag was displayed across a few of the lower fan sections as the players lined up at midfield before kickoff.

Barcelona have now opened a six point gap between themselves and Real Madrid.

Real Madrid had been playing very well at home this season and they had only allowed one home goal before Suarez made his mark in the first.

“So he will know all about the players who have come out and publicly questioned him: Karim Benzema and Sergio Ramos have been particularly vocal, with James Rodriguez joining in last week while he was on worldwide duty in Colombia”. “It will go down in history as a memorable game for Barcelona”, Enrique noted.

The visitors were up as early as the 11th minute as Sergi Roberto threaded through a flawless ball for the on-rushing Luis Suarez on right-hand side of the box, the Uruguayan finishing neatly to hand the Catalans the lead.

A third goal was almost added just at the stroke of half-time when Neymar sprinted past Danilo making his way into the Madrid penalty area and making a low pass to an onrushing Suarez whose shot was cleared off the goal-line by Marcelo.