Barcelona enjoyed a great Saturday afternoon and won 5-0 against a tough Sporting Gijón. It was an entertaining match with both sides going forward, but the Catalan giants came out on top to record a very important victory and move closer to the league leaders.
Manager Luis Enrique, who returned to his hometown of Gijón to face his childhood club, spoke to the media after the game, and he was clearly very satisfied with the performance from his players:
"We did well early on, we were creating scoring chances and had put together a good lead by the break"
"At the start of the second half we weren’t managing the ball right.