Welcome to the latest edition of ESPNFC. I'm Dan Thomas, joined the studio today by Craig Burney and Stevie Nickel.

Ria Madrid lost at home against Valencia today. We'll talk about that a little later because that, of course, had big significance of Barcelona, who had the chance to go six points clear at the top of the league table, a chance they missed out on.

It would be Gabby with a lovely goal to make it 1-0.

Netando quickly equalized to the visitors and Barter far from their fluid best, certainly

in the final third today and in the end the game would finish 1-1.

This is welcome in Luis Garcia.

Luis, we've said so many good things about Barcelona, rightly so over the last few months.

Today they weren't up to the standard that we would expect them to be.

Yeah, maybe we were missing. We are used to see this Barcelona.

I think in the last six games they score over three goals every single game and that's

something that we get used to it and it's not easy.

Today I think that it's true the person that we have done better in the last third.

I think they rush up things.

They try to put everything without composure.

La Mia Maris sure that he hasn't been the best one because maybe he was having the ball just too much.

So a lot of players were surrounding him.

So I think Pellegrini has done an amazing job in defense over there with Real Betis, a very solid team.

So I don't want to take any credit from them because today it is very well, something that is very difficult, having the possession during most of the time

for Barcelona. It wasn't easy to handle it with some transitions going forward for Real Betis.

So in the end, not an easy game for Barcelona. A good point, I think, to continue leading the

table. But we were expecting a little bit more from them that we didn't see it tonight.

Now, you mentioned Luis at halftime.

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