It was Sunday night at Mestalla, Valencia versus Barcelona. A banner running across the south stand read: “Jaume Ortí: the president of a champion Valencia. This was a different game now, between different types of teams: “Valencia is fire, Barcelona are water,” wrote Ramón Besa in El País. Valencia drew closer to a win that would put them a point behind Barcelona, six ahead of Madrid and Atlético. Yet as Las Provincias suggested there was another way of looking at the match: “Only Messi can stop Valencia,” its headline ran.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2017 14:48 UTC