Barcelona won again without the suspended Lionel Messi on Sunday as goals from Frenkie de Jong and Riqui Puig were enough to secure a scruffy 2-0 win over Elche in La Liga. We’ve had to play all our games away and in La Liga we have won all of them so I think we have done well,” said De Jong. Elche stay 19th, without a league win since October. Emiliano Rigoni went one-on-one with Marc-Andre ter Stegen but the goalkeeper saved with his right foot. Trincao twice went close to a second before Puig made sure, De Jong driving clear down the right before chipping a pass into the box for the 21-year-old to head home.

Source: Punch January 24, 2021 18:00 UTC