The National's Sport cover for the Sunday, January 31 issue, featuring Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez as Barcelona scored a major La Liga victory over Atletico Madrid.
Andy Mitten writes of the match:
“Despite Atletico’s undoubted power and progress it was their sixth successive defeat to Barca. Simeone gets the maximum from his players, yet he also loses his best talents – including Arda Turan – to Barcelona.
“Atletico had enough to blunt Barca, to give them a shock and reduce them to only four efforts on target. They just did not have enough to stop them winning. Who does?
“Such margins decide titles.”
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