Luis Suarez strike sinks Real as Barcelona win El Clasico

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Barcelona centre-back Jeremy Mathieu headed his side in front early, but Cristiano Ronaldo equalised before half-time as a Madrid team apparently in crisis pre-game showed great character to fight back into the game.

Just when Los Blancos appeared to be taking control of the game, Barca’s striker Luis Suarez scored a superb goal on the counter-attack, and the Catalans held on pretty comfortably to take control of the Spanish title race.