Deportivo 0-4 Barcelona; Juventus 4-0 Verona

Summary

Juventus 4-0 Verona
Pogba & Tevez score early goals
Deportivo 0-4 Barcelona
Messi scores 22nd La Liga hat-trick

Live Reporting

Emlyn Begley

GOALpublished at 21:14 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Claudio Marchisio plays the ball to Carlos Tevez, who takes the ball in his stride, beats defender Guillermo Rodríguez and nutmegs keeper Rafael.
Juventus are definitely going five points clear of Roma at the top.
Postpublished at 21:08 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
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That's Robert Pereyra's first Serie A goal for Juventus, the 24-year-old joining on loan from Udinese in the summer.
His first goal for the club was on Thursday. Against Verona.
GOALpublished at 21:06 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
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Giorgio Chiellini plays the ball into Roberto Pereyra, who smashes the ball beyond Rafael at his near post. Definitely game over now.
SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 21:03 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
It's Javier Saviola time for Verona as the Argentine - who I'm pretty sure was one of the new Diego Maradonas - comes on for Jacopo Sala.
Postpublished at 21:02 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Lazaros Christodoulopoulos - who wears Lazaros on the back of his jersey in presumably a cost-saving exercise - runs at the Juventus defence but then his weak shot is easily saved by Gianluigi Buffon.
Maybe a wake-up call for Juventus as that was almost game on.
Postpublished at 20:59 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
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Poor play by Juventus striker Alvaro Morata who breaks forward, he has time to pick out Carlos Tevez with precision but his cross is too quick for the Argentine, who heads wide.
Postpublished at 20:57 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Portuguese Primeira Liga
Sporting Lisbon are drawing 1-1 with Rio Ave in Portugal, Nani scoring a penalty for the capital side.
Text us on 81111published at 20:56 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Harry: Is this European football or things Emlyn dislikes?
It's both.
Join the debate at #bbceurofootypublished at 20:55 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Tom Thrall: Was erm... Grant Holt in that Pele list?
His goalscoring record for Rochdale wasn't quite good enough sadly.
Postpublished at 20:52 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Alvaro Morata fires a shot wide for Juventus. It's the first thing to happen in this game for a while.
Postpublished at 20:51 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Somebody do something.
Join the debate at #bbceurofootypublished at 20:48 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Neil: Javier Saviola... Voted in the top 100 living players by Pele in 2004.
What a list that was! If you don't remember it and are wondering how bad it was, El Hadji Diouf was named in it...
KICK-OFFpublished at 20:45 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Juventus get the second half going.
Join the debate at #bbceurofootypublished at 20:45 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
AJR: How do you know Juve will 100% win (see half-time entry)? Verona still have a chance, albeit 0.0000001%.
I rounded up.
Postpublished at 20:44 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
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Speaking of the Africa Cup of Nations, Paul Pogba's brother Florentin - who plays for St Etienne - is in the Guinea squad.
The third Pogba, Mathias - who used to play for Wrexham and Crewe and is currently at Pescara, has been capped by the National Elephant but is not in their squad.
Paul plays for France.
Postpublished at 20:38 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
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Down in Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde have just equalised in their Africa Cup of Nations game with Tunisia. Sporting Lisbon striker Heldon is the man who has levelled it up from the spot with 13 minutes left.
Read a live text commentary of that game here.
European round-uppublished at 20:36 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
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What else is happening in Europe right now? Well Marseille are drawing against Guingamp 0-0 in France's Ligue 1.
Over in Spain, Elche are 1-0 up on Levante and it's scoreless in Sevilla v Malaga.
Sporting Lisbon are also goalless against Rio Ave across the border in Portugal.
HALF-TIMEpublished at 20:31 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
We are 50% of the way to another Juventus win.
Postpublished at 20:29 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Verona have Javier Saviola on the bench. Championship Manager legend - get him on.
Postpublished at 20:28 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2015
Juventus striker Alvaro Morata drops back into his own penalty area to stop a Verona attack - what hope do they have if the hosts are still trying so hard?
We're not far away from the break now.