The Catalans narrowed the gap from Atletico to five points thanks to another purposeful display of the flea (48 and 69) • Alba completed the celebration • Europa League: Tottenham climbed to eighth with 0: 4 over Wolfsberger
Leo Messi celebrates in front of Elche.
Meanwhile, the king of goals
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Barcelona managed tonight (Wednesday) to narrow the gap from Atletico Madrid to only five points after a light 0: 3 over Elche, as part of the complementary game from the first round in Spain.
Whoever signed for a return to third place (50 points after 24 rounds), is of course Leo Messi, who starred with a huge double.
After a zeroed first half, Messi got into things in the 48th minute after a double pass and a heel from Martin Breitweit, who arranged to flea a pleasant kick from an extension.
Just lust for the eyes.
In the 69th minute.
The Argentine completed a double and climbed to the top of the scoring table with 18 goals while Luis Suarez was left behind with 16. In the 73rd minute, Jordi Alba completed the celebration with another assist from Breitweite.
Europa League
: Tottenham climbed to the eighth with 0: 4 over Wolfsberger (1: 8 in the sum of the two games).
Della Ali raised to 0: 1 with a rare goal already in the 10th minute, Vinicius doubled in the 50th minute, and then cooked Gareth Bale the third (73).
The Brazilian completed a double (83) and set the reciprocal result.