| Barça should have beaten Cádiz comfortably but missed a lot of chances and gave up a bad penalty at the end which cost them two giant points, and now the Blaugrana have to work harder and count again on Atlético Madrid dropping points to enter the title race | The hosts had two chances - and just two shots overall - with both falling to Trincao |
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| Place your legal sports bets on this game or others in CO, IN, NJ, and WV at | Four minutes later, Braithwaite had his second assist of the game, getting on the end of a Messi cross and calmly heading the ball into the path of the unmarked Alba, who had very little to do as he drove the ball into the net from six yards out |
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| There was no action in the final 20 minutes as Barça just ran out the clock, and the final whistle came to end a routine victory for the Catalans | Barcelona played against Elche CF in 3 matches this season |
Substitute Antoine Griezmann hammered the crossbar from just inside the area and then missed the target from an even easier position moments later, the twin misses summing up the France's striker's low levels of confidence.
28| The captain collects a pass from Pedri before rushing forward, beating one defender and passing to Braitwaite, who plays a cheeky one-two back-heel pass to put Messi one-on-one with Badia | The goals are coming fast now as Braithwaite bags his second assist to set up Jordi Alba's goal |
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| SECOND HALF Barça began the second half by scoring a great goal: Lionel Messi went on a run and played a one-two with Martin Braithwaite who gave it back with a gorgeous backheel, and Messi found the back of the net for the opener | Below the text is a list of the direct games |
Trincao's shot from point-blank range is stopped by the Elche keeper.
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