Barcelona humiliated Deportivo La Coruna to end a three-match losing run. Luis Suarez scored four for the Spanish leaders, with the Uruguay striker bundling in the opener, then tucking in Lionel Messi’s pass. Barca scored six in the second half – Ivan Rakitic fired in, before Suarez slid in for his hat-trick and then tapped in Neymar’s selfless pass. Messi rolled in, then Marc Bartra’s solo goal and Neymar’s simple finish from close range sealed the rout. Barca had let a nine-point lead at the top of La Liga slip but victory on Wednesday was never in doubt from the moment Suarez scored his 46th goal of the season from a corner. Suarez took his tally to 49 before the end of the night and also contributed three assists as Barca were utterly dominant. Wins for Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid mean that the title race remains tight. Barca are joined on 79 points by Atletico, with Real a point further back. There are four games remaining.

Coach Roberto Martinez’s Everton record has capitulated since he took over in 2013. That first season his side finish fifth, with a win percentage of 55.3%. But this season his season have won just 26.5% of his games in the Premier League. Yesterday they lost the Merseyside derby 4-0 to Liverpool and the Everton fans seem to have had enough. Is the end of the road for the Spainard? We shall see.

Nigerian champions, Enyimba FC of Aba has qualified for the group stages of the CAF champions league with a 7-6 aggregate win over Etoile du Sahel FC of Tunisia. The second leg match played yesterday 20th April in Tunisia ended 3-0 in regulation time in favour of Etoile du Sahel who had lost the first leg in Nigeria by the same margin. However in the ensuing penalty kicks, Enyimba had the last laugh, wining the lottery kicks 4-3 to advance to the group stages. The draw for the group stage will be held on 24 May in Cairo, Egypt.

Tuesday 19th April, 2016:

Newcastle 1 – 1 Manchester City

Wednesday 20th April, 2016:

West Ham 3 – 1 Watford

Liverpool 4 – 0 Everton

Manchester United 2 – 0 Crystal Palace

Rafa Benitez has only recently taken the Newcastle United hot-seat and already he faces a battle to hold on to it – from Moussa Sissoko’s young son. Newcastle have already had more managers in the dugout than they would have liked this season but ahead of Newcastle’s clash with Man City it looked as though there was going to be yet another. And it was a mini-Sissoko who took a liking for Benitez’s chair, with the midfielder’s son perching himself in the dugout shortly before the game kicked off.

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