BARCELONA beat Granada 4-0 at home to go six points clear at the top of La Liga without a number of injured players including Lionel Messi on Saturday.With Xavi Hernandez, Dani Alves, Victor Valdes and Jordi Alba injured, Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino made seven changes from the side that faced Real Betis two weeks ago.
The goals came from first-half penalties from Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas.
Alexis Sanchez added a third in the 71st minute from Neymar’s pass and Pedro Rodriguez scored a minute from time.
Granada played the final quarter of the game with 10-men as Manuel Iturra was shown a second yellow card.
Overall Barcelona were never really under any great threat and won the game comfortably.-kickoff.



