La Liga leaders Barcelona went back to winning ways with a 3-0 home triumph over Racing Santander on Saturday, lengthening their advantage over second-placed rivals Real Madrid to seven points. Barcelona suffered their first overcome in 28 games midweek, after an impressive victorious run in all matches, losing 3-1 to Spanish second division side Real Betis in the second leg of their Copa del Rey collide, but going through 6-3 on aggregate.
But it had been 28 years as Racing Santander had won a league game at the Camp Nou and having also lost seven of their last 10 away league matches, never looked possible to get the better of the reigning Spanish champions.
Pep Guardiola’s team was missing Brazil right back Daniel Alves in addition to Jeffren Suarez of Spain but the nonattendance of the two players did not obstruct the Catalan giants.
