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Barcelona Back On Top


Barcelonas £60m striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic stepped off the bench to score the only goal of a fiercely contested El Clasico against Real Madrid and move Barca back to the top of the league.

Barca, who started the game a point behind their arch rivals, finished the game with 10 men when Sergio Busquets was shown a second yellow card just after the hour mark.

But by that time they had a lead courtesy of Ibrahimovics brilliantly struck leftfoot volley from Dani Alves rightwing cross. The Swede netting just minutes after coming on for Thierry Henry.

Real created the better of the chances in the Camp Nou, but paid for their wastefulness, with substitute Karim Benzema most culpable as he ballooned haplessly over with only five minutes left.

View the whole article at BBC Sport