Barcelona slayed another dragon on Saturday, claiming a 3-0 victory at RCD Espanyol to leapfrog Real Madrid in La Liga’s title race.
For the ninth time this season, Luis Suarez was the player to open the scoring. Jurado hit the self-destruct button by using the outside of his foot to play a ball directly into the Uruguayan cannibal’s path, and the product of Nacional merely needed to beat Diego Lopez.
From there, Barcelona continued to pile on the pressure. Ivan Rakitic produced a lovely finish to double the Blaugrana’s lead, and Suarez scored his second goal of the night, bagging his 118th goal for the Catalan club in all competitions to surpass Hristo Stoichkov’s tally.
Luis Suarez has scored 200 goals in 277 apps in all comps since joining Liverpool in Jan 2011:
82 in 133 for @LFC
118 in 144 for Barcelona pic.twitter.com/eAgViSUY6m— Sky Sports Statto (@SkySportsStatto) April 29, 2017
The result put Barcelona level on points with Real Madrid atop the standings, but the Blaugrana hold the better head-to-head record the wonderful edition of El Clasico on …read more