Valencia: Cañizares, Miguel, Marchena, Helguera, Moretti, Mantoro, Albelda, Joaquín, Arizmendi, Morientes and Silva

Barcelona: Valdés, Puyol, Márquez, Milito, Abidal, Xavi, Touré, Inietsa, Gudjohnsen, Messi and Etoo

Chance for Eidur Gudjohnsen in 30 seconds but he couldn’t find Samuel Etoo due to lack of precision on his first touch.

Bad first touch from Etoo since Messi found him with only Cañizares to beat but he spoiled it in minute 3.

Good luck for Yaya Touré in a corner but her header goes straight to Cañizares and he finishes it off with the palm in the 9th minute.

Fantastic goal by Etoo, who skipped the challenge from Marchena and Mantoro; and finished off Cañizares in the 13th minute.

Another chance for Etoo that Puyol won with a header and landed nicely on Etoo but his header went straight to Cañizares in the 21st minute.

Absolutely brilliant 2nd goal for Barcelona as they passed and moved the ball between 6 players, it finally reached Etoo, he passed it to Iniesta who passed it to Messi back to Etoo and his 2-0 in the 26th minute.

Another fantastic piece of Barcelona football, started by Gudjohnsen, continued by Messi to Etoo and then to Iniesta, whose cross was missed by Messi to make it 3-0 in the 31st minute.

Valencia’s first notable attempt in the 33rd minute when Arizmendi finished off Puyol on the inside but his shot went high.

Another chance for Etoo, who made a great run behind the Valencia defense but Marchena knew how to stick out a leg to avoid Etoo’s hat-trick in the 36th minute.

Morientes had to be injured by Vicente in minute 39′.

Etoo charged again, this time he went through 2 defenders and was about to release the trigger when a desperate lunge from Marchena prevented him from scoring 3 in the 42′ minute.

Lionel Messi goes down due to an injury that could be muscular in the 43rd minute, replaced by Giovanni.

Halftime

Valencia 0 Barcelona 2

A performance as poor as the one that Valencia has given throughout the season and they have been told that this season is fair. Barcelona were so superior with Etoo in top form that it was embarrassing.

It was too easy for Barcelona and some of their players didn’t have to break a sweat. The only downside for them is that Messi left injured and may miss next week’s big clash against arch-rivals Real Madrid.

Valencia surely cannot play worse than in the first half.

Etoo gets another chance in the 47th minute after he jumped a challenge and his shot went straight to Cañizares.

Good defense by Milito to prevent Joaquín from putting in a cross and the resulting throw-in was hit by David Silva, which Valdés barely saved in the 51st minute.

Great shot by Giovanni but Cañizares stops it at 53′.

It’s 3-0 with another good pass involving Xavi and Giovanni, who selflessly passes to Gudjohnsen to knock on goal in the 61st minute.

A chance for Valencia due to a foul by Vicente and once again Valdés released the ball over the crossbar in the 65th minute.

Deco came on for Touré and Mata for Joaquín at 65′.

Etoo comes on for Bojan Krkic at 67′.

Lomban enters for Moretti in the 71st minute.

Giovanni’s chance to make the 4 but as he took a pass from Xavi in ​​the 73′ but his shot went wide.

It should have been 4 when Barcelona started a play from their own half with Deco, who gave the ball to Giovanni and his cross pass was controlled well by Gudjohnsen; he jumped 2 challenges, passed a nice ball to Xavi, went over Cañizares, crossed to Giovanni but his weak shot was cleared by Miguel in the 76th minute.

Good shot by Bojan who controlled a pass from Xavi well with his chest but went straight to Cañizares in the 80th minute.

Half a chance for Vicente in the 81st minute, as Marquez was very careless with his pass and went straight to Villa and passed to Vicente, but the angle was too sharp for him to score.

Free kick in a dangerous position for Valencia, in minute 90, taken by Vicente, but nailed with relative safety by Víctor Valdés.

Full time

Valencia 0 Barcelona 3

In the end, it was too comfortable for Barcelona, ​​as Valencia were slightly better in the second half, but still not good enough at the highest level.

There were a lot of good performances from the Barcelona players with Gudjohnsen, Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Toure, Deco, Giovanni, Abidal and especially Etoo all in top form.

The only players who left Valencia with some merit are possibly Cañizares and Miguel, the rest were terrible.