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The Barça boss was ecstatic with his side's last gasp win on a tricky afternoon at Mestalla Barcelona manager Luis Enrique spoke about his side's late win against Valencia in a press conference on Saturday. "How we’ve won says a lot about the character and the spirit of this team, despite the adversities throughout the game, such as Iniesta’s injury, which is sad news," he explained. "But the character is there. The team believe in each other and are desperate to win, but the objective is to do so without suffering so much." On the game, the Asturian commented that it was a "Valencia-Barça true to the tradition of this fixture, with tension, intensity and with both teams with chances to win the game right up until the end. "We started well and we were able to seize the advantage by half time, but then they came back to equalise. At the beginning of the second half we had a crazy five minutes. "We had some luck getting back...

Early indications are that he will miss three months although further tests will be taken by doctors back in Barcelona Andres Iniesta suffered a partial tear of his right knee ligament against Valencia on Saturday. The midfielder was fouled by Enzo Perez and went down in agony, immediately calling for assistance for the bench. iniesta injured Early indications are that he will miss three months although further tests will be taken when he arrives back in Barcelona. The club released a statement reading: “The first team player Andrés Iniesta has injured the lateral collateral ligament in his right knee. When he arrives in Barcelona the player will have more tests to find out the exact extent of the injury.” Iniesta was taken off for Ivan Rakitic. Luis Enrique said: “We saw immediately that the player was injured and there was no yellow card. We’ll see how long he’s out for tomorrow, but yes, it will be a while. It’s a serious injury."  

The Blaugrana had to come from behind to secure a dramatic win at Mestalla, with Messi the hero at the death after Munir had almost helped Valencia snatch a point against his parent club Messi celebrates goal with Suarez Barcelona won a thrilling game 3-2 at Mestalla on Saturday thanks to a stoppage time   penalty from Lionel Messi.  The Argentine was handed the chance to beat penalty expert Diego Alves from 12 yards when a flowing move ended with Aymen Abdennour fouling Luis Suarez. Messi stood up to the challenge and Alves went the right way, but the ball crept into the bottom corner and Barca’s players celebrated in front of the home supporters.  A bottle was thrown at them as they did so, but the damage had already been done by Messi’s left boot.  Barça’s afternoon got off to a bad start when Andres Iniesta was taken off injured after a fierce challenge from Enzo Perez.  It was the theme to the opening 20 minutes, with Neymar crun...

 Barcelona went ahead through Messi, before Munir and Rodrigo turned it around, but Suarez and Messi again then wins  it for champions.   Marc-Andre ter Stegen 7 The goalkeeper had little chance with either of the two goals and made some good saves, notably from Dani Parejo who was through. Sergi Roberto 6 A solid return after injury for the midfielder turned full-back, worked hard and Valencia did not manage to get in too many times down his flank.   Javier Mascherano 5 The Argentine should have been leading this defence in the absence of Gerard Pique, but was ineffectual at times as Valencia poured forward.   Samuel Umtiti 5 Perhaps lucky not to give away a penalty for a shove on Rodrigo. Had been might il impressive so far and this was his first wobble, without Gerard Pique by his side.   Lucas Digne 6 The full-back suffered at times due to the direct running of Joao Cancelo and in the early stages of the second half Munir El Haddadi, b...