Barcelona open up La Liga title race for Atletico and Real - ESPN FC
And so it comes to this: three teams, three and a half weeks and a five-match dash for the finish line. Barcelona, Atletico, Madrid. "The team that wins the league will be the best over 38 games, not five," Barcelona manager Luis Enrique insisted on Tuesday, but that's not really true anymore. Whatever happened then happened; what matters is what happens next, and it all starts in A Coruña on Wednesday night.
FC Barcelona are in La Coruña | FC Barcelona
In addition to the travel squad and coaching staff, defender Gerard Pique, serving a one-game ban, was also on the plane to lend support to his teammates.