FC Barcelona Stays Firm in La LIga Title Hunt

Can't believe I missed two of the most entertaining matches in this season's La Liga chase. With Real Madrid on their tail, FC Barcelona has registered consecutive league victories against Villareal and Tenerife.

The margin of both the victories are the same with Barca managing to find the net on four occasions in each match.

It was quite a surprise to see Ibrahimovic missing from the lineup against Villareal, especially with the David Villa rumors going strong. There were some suggestions which pointed that may be Guardiola has started to lose confidence in Ibrahimovic. But for now Ibra looks firmly in the plans of Guardiola and that should be the reason why he started with him against Tenerife.

After the disappointing performance against Inter Milan it was good to see Messi back on the score sheet. He has scored four goals in the last two matches and now leads the La Liga Pichichi with 31 goals, six more than Real Madrid's Higuain.

With yesterday's victory, we have once again opened a four-point lead with second place Real Madrid. Real will be visiting Mallorca tonight and will be looking to close down the lead. It was quite disappointing to see Real grabbing a late winner against Osasuna, keeping their title hopes alive. It looks like we cannot count on another team to help us in opening the lead, we most probably have to do it ourselves.

Most of the footballing world's attention has turned once again back to Xavi, who is playing with a calf injury and could miss the world cup. I seriously don't believe that he could miss the world cup but that might be quite a risk. If Mallorca can do us a favor, we could rest Xavi in the last matches.

The real revelation of last two match has been Bojan Krkic. He has not been doing anything extra-ordinary, but boy his finishing his world class. I have earlier predicted that he could break any record set by Raul or Villa, I feel confident of my prediction. From the break of this year, he has looked more confident and has been doing extremely well.