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Messi and Neymar fire Barca to 12th straight win
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 13 - 03 - 2016

Barcelona equaled a club record of 12 consecutive league wins as Neymar and Lionel Messi were among the scorers in a 6-0 thrashing of struggling Getafe 6-0 at the Nou Camp Saturday.
The win takes Barca 11 points clear of nearest challengers Atletico Madrid at the top of La Liga, although Diego Simeone's side face Deportivo La Coruna later Saturday.
An own goal by Getafe defender Juan Dominguez put Barca on its way to victory after eight minutes but then Messi missed a fourth penalty of the season, before laying on passes for Munir El Haddadi and Neymar to stretch Barca's lead.
The Argentine added a fourth before the break with a curling strike from the edge of the area.
Neymar then struck a 21st goal of the season in all competitions, again assisted by Messi, while Arda Turan completed the thrashing with an overhead volley.
Luis Enrique's side is in the midst of a record of 37 matches without defeat in all competitions and the victory over Getafe matched the 12 straight league wins it achieved in 2012-13 under coach Tito Vilanova.
Before the match Barca enjoyed its first week without a match in 2016, and Luis Enrique made five changes from the team that won 4-0 at Eibar last Sunday, resting Luis Suarez, Dani Alves, Sergio Busquets and Ivan Rakitic before its Champions League round of 16 second leg match with Premier League side Arsenal Wednesday.
Getafe sits one point above the relegation zone in 16th place and the trouncing it received at the Nou Camp was its eighth defeat in nine league matches.
Moenchengladbach wins 3-0
Borussia Moenchengladbach defeated Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0 as former Croatia coach Niko Kovac's tenure got off to a bad start Saturday.
Kovac, appointed successor to the sacked Armin Veh Tuesday, could only watch as goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky endured a difficult afternoon. Lars Stindl opened the scoring in the 36th minute, Raffael made it 2-0 in the 53rd and Mahmoud Dahoud wrapped up the win in the 79th.
Frankfurt remained in the relegation playoff spot, level on 24 points with Hoffenheim, which defeated Wolfsburg 1-0 at home while 'Gladbach moved into fourth.
Also Saturday, Stuttgart drew 3-3 at Ingolstadt, Augsburg finished 2-2 at Darmstadt and Cologne won 2-0 at bottom side Hannover.


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