On Saturday night at the Camp Nou, Barcelona turned over Celta Vigo 4-1. It was a facile win. The Galician team are rooted in the drop zone, and it was their fifth defeat in a row. Lionel Messi resolved the game with a hat-trick before a late Barca goal was tagged on by Sergio Busquets. The following day, Diario Sport, one of Catalonia's two sports newspapers, cut to the quick with its front-page headline: "Messi, Messi, Messi and only Messi."
Barcelona are at the top of the league table on goal difference ahead of Real Madrid; their performances this season, however, have been unconvincing.