Barcelona travel to La Coruña on a high note as they look to repeat another great performance like they did over the weekend against the defending champions Atletico Madrid in a 3-1 victory.
It's been quite a distraction to the drama that happened behind the scenes in Catalonia with the sacking of club director Andoni Zubizarreta and the resignation of Carles Puyol as the assistant director. The rumors also of Messi going to Chelsea and having a rivarly with manager Luis Enrique, has provided more drama.
However, all that was put aside after Messi publically said after the Atletico match that the rumours of calling Enrique's sacking and leaving were all false leaving Barcelona fans with a sense of relief. Then, only less than 24 hours later in Zurich for the Ballon D'Or ceremony, when asked a question about his future he said that he ''doesn't know where he will end up next year as anything in football can happen.'' Whatever the case is or truth, Barcelona fans are looking to repeat the happiness that they got last week against Simeone's Atletico.
Surely now the time is right for Enrique to acknowledge that the players must be rewarded for that display in Barcelona in the best way possible: keeping their place.
Predicted starting XI: Bravo; Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Javier Mascherano, Jordi Alba; Sergio Busquets, Ivan Rakitic, Andres Iniesta; Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Neymar.