“Real Madrid maintained their lead over Barcelona after an entertaining win over Valencia at the Mestalla. Unai Emery went back to 4-2-3-1 having played two upfront in the previous game against Levante. Sofiane Feghouli started rather than Pablo Hernandez, and Daniel Parejo got a rare start in the centre of the attacking trio. Jose Mourinho changed his system, moving Mesut Ozil out wide, bringing Lassana Diarra into the side and pushing Sami Khedira forward behind Karim Benzema. Angel Di Maria was injured.” Zonal Marking

Spain plays video games after Real Madrid win a thriller at Valencia
“It all happened so fast you weren’t sure if it had happened at all. Not then, not an hour later, not the morning after, not two days on and not that it stopped them. ‘You can see it clearly on the television,’ said Gonzalo Higuaín, but you couldn’t. For some time, you couldn’t see it on television at all, let alone clearly. The only thing you could be sure of was that you weren’t sure at all. And yet they’d never been so sure of anything in their lives. So it was that what started as a soldier against mercenaries inevitably ended in an ugly war. And the trenches were dug in familiar territory.” Guardian