With Lionel Messi out, Barcelona will have to depend on the South American duo of Neymar and Luis Suarez. Can Barcelona survive, or are they in big trouble?
Lionel Messi is undeniably the most effective player in the world. While a lot was made of his early season scoring struggles, he was contributing in other major ways for his team have amounted to promising victories.
It was a horrid week for the two most renowned superstars in the world. While Robert Lewandowski finished his week with seven goals in two games, both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi continued looking to add to their goal totals but only continued to find inconsistency.
Yesterday we took a look at Cristiano Ronaldo's seeming inconsistency throughout the start of the year, but he is not the only one struggling to score goals. Lionel Messi, the man destined to win the Ballon d'Or in a matter of months has actually been worse at finishing in 2015-16 than his great rival.
Week 4 of the La Liga season is complete, and it was another great week with exciting goals, diving saves and huge wins. See which players and teams stood out this week in the Spanish Premier League.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi having finally arrived after struggling through the opening few weeks of the season. Both superstars got two chances to prove their mettle in week four of the 2015-16 season - once in the Champions League and a second time in the Spanish league. Both stars faced challenging UCL matches and "easy" Liga games and wound up with contrasting results in both games.
Which superstar was the winner of week 4?
Barcelona and Real Madrid each won their Week 3 La Liga games to stay on top of the standings. Latin Post breaks down the exciting Week 3 of the Spanish Premier League.
After going scoreless in the opening two matches of La Liga, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi opened their goalscoring accounts in the third week, both in decidedly different ways.
Something unexpected happened this weekend. For the first time in history, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo failed to score goals in two consecutive league games.
