Xavi, every time I look at you I see a completed pass.

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Ousmane Dembele from 30 yards, fires wide. Lovely feet on show from Nico Gonzalez to drag that ball into his path.

Darwin Machis picks the ball up to the left of the area. He has one thing on his mind and cuts in before shooting over.

He took himself backwards really and was digging that one out.

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Granada could equal their longest ever run without defeat in La Liga - seven games - if they avoid defeat tonight.

The last time they did that was in 1969.

Off we go again.

Granada in red and white, Barca in yellow. Why am I stressing this like some kind of boxing commentator outlining the colour of trunks? I have no idea.

Anyway, we're on again.

We are about to have players back out on the pitch my friends...

Remember Roberto Soldado?

Predator at Valencia, paltry at Spurs.

The man banged one in for Levante earlier as they beat Mallorca 2-0.

There's a lot of talk about Barcelona's 17-year-old midfield starlet Gavi making a Premier League move.

His first-half offer here has been peripheral. With 23 touches he has seen less ball than any other Barca outfield player.

He did create the ruled-out goal for Luuk de Jong however.

Plenty to like about the way Gavi floats around the edge of the box and bursts in from time to time. Will we see a little more of him after the break though?

Tight in southern Spain.

Barca seeing more ball but doing very little with it. They may however feel VAR has robbed them of a goal early on.

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Granada are standing up to Barca admirably but in truth they are hardly being put under waves of pressure.

The home side should have been given a free-kick near the Barca area moments ago after a blatant Sergio Busquets handball. The referee saw nothing.

Two added minutes at the end of a mediocre half.

Gavi bursts into the Granada box but in trying to head the ball into his own path he is robbed.

Unsurprisingly Sergio Busquets has seen more of the ball than any Barca player. Ousmane Dembele is also well involved, with 35 touches in his wide-right area.

Readers of our gossip column each day will know that Dembele, Newcastle, Lucas Digne and Paul Pogba's contract are very much on trend.

Dembele tries a flick to release a team-mate in the area but it's intercepted.

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Granada are six games unbeaten in La Liga ladies and gents.

In recent weeks they've beaten the likes of Mallorca 4-1 and earned a 2-1 win against Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid. Diego and his lads never go lightly, so this lot have clearly got a bit in the locker.

Luuk de Jong is flicking balls off left, right, centre. He's at the heart of the good Barca work and looks integral tonight. It's hard to believe this man once rocked up at Newcastle, played a dozen times on loan and left without finding the net.

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Gavi picks up a Luuk de Jong flick and he briefly looks like he's in on goal but his touch past the last defender is a little heavy and Granada keeper Luís Maximiano is out to collect at Gavi's feet.

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Luuk de Jong has scored a lovely header, which was ruled out because Gavi's shoe lace was offside in the build-up.

De Jong also attempted a scorpion kick (I think that's the current name we give these) and narrowly missed.

At the other end Granada have forced Marc-André ter Stegen into one fine save.

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Darwin Machis on the left flank for Granada is getting a little joy. He breaks between two bodies and he's into the box, only to be stopped by a well-timed Eric Garcia tackle just as he's about to pull the ball back.

On the break Maxime Gonalons is booked for Granada as he concedes a free-kick 35 yards out.

Ladies and gents, Granada boss Robert Moreno.

Built in Spain, this is clearly a man who has kept an eye on the touchline apparel of greats like Pulis and Warnock.

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Marc-André ter Stegen gets down and throws a strong arm at a low drive from Darwin Machis.

Once that shot made it past a defender's block it was always going to be tricky to handle.

More chaos.

Quini fires over the bar from a wide area for Granada. But the home side are fuming as on the edge of the box their man Luis Milla goes down under the challenge of Gavi, who has just been booked.

Gavi did brush his shirt but he hardly got to a stage where he was truly pulling it. Granada want a penalty but they have as much chance of getting one as Newcastle do of winning the FA Cup.