Competitive football game seems to be pickings its toll on FC Barcelona as the Catalan club struggled to whelm a 10-man Real Betis side this weekend and edge to a 24th La Liga style. Record 32-time winners Real Madrid are just a point off the leadership and Atletico Madrid are tied on 36 points with Barca, with the Catalans on pole with a master goal difference. Coach Luis Enrique has enough reasons for touch on though, with a Barcelona side going into the final examination extend looking substantially more worn out than Atletico and Real.

After Madrid beat Real Sociedad and Atletico eked out a win against Rayo Vallecano at the Vicente Calderone, Barcelona had their task cut out. The Betis reparatio had now off into a must-win. The Catalan side did not look their attacking best and put up an uncharacteristically drab first half. But tables soured real western fence lizard when Heiko Westermann was shown a red card, reduction the Seville side to 10 men. Custodian Antonio Adan, having commented pre-match about how he 39;d love to queer Barca 39;s style challenge, made a fatal wrongdoing, giving Ivan Rakitic and Barca their first goal of the day when Rakitic broached hoem the spillover from Adan. Luis Suarez sealed the deal with some clinical finish as the Uruguay hitter judged Messi 39;s pass to paragon and slid the ball home as late as the 81st second.

The performance was far from memorable, but fans went home satidfied as the conference set back remained the same with only one few match to play. In the last two matches, Barca only need to play off their rivals 39; performances to take the La Liga style home. So what they are fundamentally looking at is a win against Espanyol at home followed by an away win at Granada. The Espanyol derby hat would have set the match tongues wagging, with the La Liga no alien to upset victories. But Espanyol 39;s sudden drop in form means Barca will always have the upper berth hand. The Granada match is reputed to be more militant though, with the side combat hard to keep their target in the top tier of Spanish football game.

Barca 39;s Holocene epoch slouch in the quality of football game though, has raised concerns over the depth in their squad. hire table football critics say it is high time administrators and managers pay touch care to a star side and rest their starters to avoid outwear in the final exam stretches for overworked marquee players. To put matters in perspective, Barca looked to romp home with a 24th style win with 10 points between them and the closest competitors from Madrid. As of now, Luis Enrique and Co. would be felicitous to crawl over the line and into the safety of Nou Camp with a La Liga trophy to show for their efforts. But Spanish football game is in the thick of things right now as Atletico look to home a 1-0 advantage in the first leg of their Champions League collide with Bayern Munich as they jaunt to the Allianz Arena. Cristiano Ronaldo is gear up to join the Madrid ranks for their Wednesday fix and it seems James Rodriguez, the Colombian prognostic, seems set to make a summer move out of Real as English, Italian and German clubs line up to sign him on.