Valencia vs Barcelona Left to rue officiating mistake

Whilst a 1-1 draw away from home to one of your title rivals is never a bad result, Ernesto Valverde was left to rue an incredibly poor refereeing decision, but the former Athletic Club coach also made clear something similar happened against Malaga which went in their favour.

Jordi Alba's late equaliser against his former club spared Barcelona's blushes.

"In our game against Malaga, we had a goal count when the ball had clearly gone out," he explained in his post-match press conference.

"We all agree that in these very clear plays, you don't need the replays.

"However, we are still facing these moments where a ball crosses the line and it can't be seen."

The match was an incredibly intriguing battle between two well matched teams and Valverde felt that his team couldn't quite get to grips with Los Che's counter attacks.

"It was a hard fought game," he admitted.

"We were exposed because they are great on the counter attack.

"We know they are a strong team at home and in the end we earned a draw, it was a good game."

Balance is incredibly important in a football team, and that's what helped Barcelona recover from the hosts taking the lead through Rodrigo Moreno.

"With the balance we have, we had to be very attentive to their two strikers," he intimated.

"They have good players, especially Guedes who is excellent.

"We did a good job to recover, we could see that we only needed one key moment but we couldn't rush."