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Laporte was Barça's main target for the summer transfer window, but decided to give up on the signing when the 21-year-old broke his leg during international duty, and is not expected to return to action until late August. The Catalan giants want to ...

Japing aside, Barcelona did more than beat Betis. The Catalan club prevailed in a 2-0 victory that had the look of being most perilous indeed with Betis having lost just the once at home in the previous eight games and having almost bettered Real Madrid.

As you can see, the preceding play happened late on in Barcelona's Saturday match against Real Betis. It was a typical late-season Barcelona performance, which is to say it was stilted, largely devoid of much intrigue, though ultimately fairly comfortable.

Sky Sports' Spanish football experts Guillem Balague and Terry Gibson feel the Barcelona squad needs freshening up sooner rather than later. The Catalan side scraped past Real Betis over the weekend to remain top of La Liga with two games to play but ...

Xavi has spent almost all his career at the heart of one of the best passing sides that ever existed. So it's no surprise that he likes to see the game played a certain way. Elano wrongly arrested for 'beating up' club owner. But to criticise Real ...

Barcelona manager Luis Enrique produced his angriest team talk ever in a bid to inspire the Catalan side to a victory against Real Betis. Barcelona were in danger of letting 10 man Real Betis prevent them from scoring and thus go behind in the title ...