73' Busquets wins a free kick to put a stop to the danger by his usual rolling on the ground tactic even though there was no contact on him whatsoever!
62' GREAT CHANCE FOR THE EQUALISER GOES BEGGING! A cross comes in from the left across the face of goal and it just goes past the far post with none of the runners into the box able to make contact!!
59' ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL CALL! The free-kick finally comes, Barca try to play the offside trap! But they did not see the run of the full back who wasn't offside. The linesman raises his flag anyway and that is a very poor call!
59' Should Messi have been sent off? Sociedad try to take a quick free-kick but Messi gets in the way and blocks it illegally. The crowd scream for a second yellow but the referee keeps his cards in his pocket
57' NEYMAR TRIES TO CURL ONE! Once again set up by a Leo Messi backheel allowing the Brazilan to open his body up and try to place that ball in the far corner. Did not get enough curl on it!
48' NEYMAR WASTES A GREAT CHANCE!! One long ball and the defence are al over the place, the Brazilian is through but he takes a poor touch and the keeper gathers. That should have been 2-0!!
45' RAUL NAVAS GOES CLOSE WITH A HEADER! Sociedad take a long free kick and Navas makes a run into the box gets a powerful header that just drifts wide of Cilissen's far post!
36' Illaramendi takes a shot from long range after 10 minutes of midfield tussling which goes out for a corner But they can't take advantage of the poor marking in the box!
27' Sociedad enjoyed a good spell of pressure with a couple of corners and crosses but Barcelona deal with it after some unconventional defending it has to be said. But it stays 1-0 so far
24' OOOH! Messi is brought down while trying to get away from two Sociedad players and the ball is slammed into him! HE then gets up and gives the opposite player a slight shoulder barge!
23' The players let him take it and he does the stop-start penalty by stopping and then placing the ball in the opposite direction of the goalkeeper's dive!
19' Barcelona slowly getting more control over their play.MSN combine for the every first time with Messi at the centre of it all. BUt Neymar's final ball was heavy
8' Neymar with a good opportunity who had space to shoot after Messi found him but he played it back to the Argentine when there were several players around him and the chance is wasted
5' Neymar drives it low it deflects and falls to Messi on th edge of the box, who sets up Suarez but his shot is blocked and the keeper plucks the ball from the sky
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