Magical Messi revives title race

Big matches often fail to live up to their billing, but Real Madrid and Barcelona produced a belter on Sunday night that genuinely deserved the title of El Clasico.

End to end from the start, it was a match that swung first one way then the other, right through to the final five seconds when Barcelona and Lionel Messi snatched an extraordinary victory and so opened up a title race that appeared to be over.

Madrid have led Barcelona for all but a couple of weeks since October, and came into this match three points ahead with a game in hand. Barcelona had to win this match to save their season, with only the Copa del Rey offering a small consolation prize.